Contact Details
| jens.ahrens@chalmers.se | |
| Phone | +46-(0)31-772 2210 |
About
Jens Ahrens is a Professor and head of the Audio Technology Group within the Division of Applied Acoustics at Chalmers, which he joined in 2016. He received his Diplom (equivalent to a M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering jointly from Graz University of Technology and the University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria, in 2005. Jens completed his Doctoral Degree (Dr.-Ing.) at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2010. From 2006 to 2011, he was a member of the Audio Technology Group at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories / TU Berlin where he worked on the topic of sound field synthesis. From 2011 to 2013, Jens was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, USA. Thereafter, he re-joined the Quality and Usability Lab at the Technische Universität Berlin. In the fall and winter terms of 2015/16, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, California, USA.
Find more information here.
Other Roles Since 2016
| 2024 – | Member of the board of directors of the Brewhouse Inkubator |
| 2023 – | Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing |
| 2023 – | Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing |
| 2022 – | Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing |
| 2022 | Visiting Professor, Reality Labs Research, Meta, USA |
| 2021 – | Vice-President of the Scientific Advisory Board of KFB Acoustics, Poland |
| 2021 | Visiting Professor, International Audio Laboratories, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
| 2020 – 2022 | Guest Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing |
| 2019 – 2023 | Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters |
| 2018 – 2020 | Visiting Professor, Centre for Audio and Psychoacoustic Engineering, University of Huddersfield, UK |
Research
- Signal processing for spatial audio
- Psychoacoustics of spatial audio / spatial hearing
- Signal processing for microphone arrays
- Room acoustics and artificial reverberation
- Modeling of head-related transfer functions for headphone reproduction
- Interaction with spatial audio scenes
See also the pages of the Audio Technology Group.
Current Research Projects
- Auralization of simulated sound fields
- Audible Architecture (funded by Stiftelsen Anna Ahrenbergs fond)
- Digital Twin Cities Centre
- 3D audio capture and rendering using spherical microphone arrays (with Reality Labs)
- SoundScape Renderer
Past Research Projects
- UAVs in the medical courier system in Västra Götaland
- Levitate (EC, FET Open)
Teaching
- Microphone Array Project (Erasmus+ BIP with TU Berlin and TU Delft)
- Spatial Audio – Practical Master Guide (MOOC)
- Introduction to Audio Technology and Acoustics
- Sound and Vibration Measurements
- Electroacoustics
- Digital Signal Processing for Audio Engineering and Active Sound and Vibration Control
- Individual Preparation Course
- Room Acoustics
- Music Engineering (Tracks course)
- Communication Acoustics (MOOC, part 1, part 2)
Publications
- A complete list of publications can be found here.
- Jens Ahrens’s profile on Google Scholar is here.
- Jens Ahrens’s reviewer profile is here.
- Jens Ahrens’s YouTube channel