Jens Peter Blauert (born 20 June 1938 inHamburg[1]) is a German scientist specializing inpsychoacoustics and an emeritus professor at theRuhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute of Communication Acoustics. His major scientific fields of interest are spatial hearing,binaural technology, aural architecture, perceptual quality,speech technology, virtual environments and tele-presence.
Blauert was born inHamburg on June 20, 1938 to Werner, a university lecturer and Hedwig.[1] He received his elementary and secondary education inDresden and Hamburg and later received a doctorate in engineering after studying communication engineering inAachen in 1969.[1][2] Since 1974 he has been an important figure in electrical engineering and acoustics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he established the Institute of Communication Acoustics (IKA) and chaired it until 2003.[2] After this he was honored as an emeritus professor.
Blauert is a fellow of theAcoustical Society of America, theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, theInstitute of Acoustics, and theAudio Engineering Society.[2][3] Further, he is honorary member of the German audiological society, and the Polish Acoustical Society.[2] During his career he has authored or co-authored over 150 papers and has published books such asSpatial Hearing - the Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization (1983), a standard in this field.[4][5]
He has provided his professional expertise to the science community in several countries and has been asked to lecture at many universities worldwide, includingCardiff University.[2][6] He served as chairman of the ITG committee on electroacoustics, cofounder and chairman of theEuropean Acoustics Association, president and vice president of theGerman Acoustical Society,[4] an associate board member of the International Commission for Acoustics, member of the Environmental-Protection Council of the State ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia, board member and cofounder of the European Speech-Communication Association, and board member and cofounder of the section on noise and vibration, of theGerman Standard Association.[2]
In 1994 he was awarded an honorary degree (Dr. Tech.) byAalborg University,Denmark and has received various other honors and awards.[2] In 1999, he was bestowed with theHelmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal of theAcoustical Society of America.[4] In 2009 he co-authored the bookAcoustics for Engineers: Troy Lectures withNing Xiang.[1][7]
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