Jens Ahrens

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About

Jens Ahrens has been an Associate Professor and head of the Audio Technology Group within the Division of Applied Acoustics at Chalmers since 2016. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Audio and Psychoacoustic Engineering at University of Huddersfield, UK, since 2018. Jens received his Diplom (equivalent to a M.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering/Sound Engineering jointly from Graz University of Technology and the University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz, Austria, in 2005. He 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. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and a Guest Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. 

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Research

• Physical theory of sound field synthesis
• Signal processing for sound field synthesis
• Room acoustics and artificial reverberation
• Psychoacoustics of spatial audio
• Modeling of head-related transfer functions for headphone reproduction
• Object-oriented representation of spatial audio scenes
• Interaction with spatial audio scenes
• Signal processing for microphone arrays

See also the pages of the Audio Technology Group.

Current Research Projects

• Levitate (EC, FET Open)
• 3D audio capture and rendering using spherical microphone arrays (with Facebook Reality Labs)
• SoundScape Renderer

Teaching

• 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.