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PhD position vacancy on urban sound modelling for Urban Air Mobility perception studies
How will future Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles sound and how will UAM be perceived in our cities? If exploring that question excites you, we have an opportunity you’ll want to consider. The purpose of the project is the predict the sound of UAM vehicles in real urban settings. We target to arrive at a prediction model that provides…
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JASA paper on directional coherence loss coefficients
We’re excited to share our latest work:“Directional coherence loss coefficients for characterizing scattering distributions in enclosures” (JASA, Jan 2026), by Dingding Xie, Wouter Wittebol and Maarten Hornikx In this paper, we introduce Directional Coherence Loss Coefficients (DCLCs), a new way to quantify how strongly directional sound field coherence is lost due to localized scattering inside rooms, from the receiver’s…
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Hary Prakoso starts to work on CHORAS
This month, we had the kick-off of the graduation project of Hary Dhimas Prakoso. He is a trainee in the TU/e programme software engineering, EngD ST. It is two years ago we started building the community hub for open-source room acoustics software CHORAS, and Hary will continue the development of this platform, in particular the…
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New paper on acoustic impedance of vegetated roofs
Urban vegetation—especially vegetated roofs—has real potential for noise mitigation. But accurately measuring their acoustic properties in situ is not as straightforward as it seems. In our new paper, “Influence of transducer locations on acoustic impedance prediction in porous systems with application to vegetated roofs,” we take a close look at how small errors in source and microphone positioning can strongly affect the…
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Paper on the acoustic diffusion equation model in long rooms
We are happy to share our latest Applied Acoustics article:“An empirical diffusion coefficient function for the acoustic diffusion equation model in long rooms” In this work, we tackle one of the limitations of the acoustic diffusion equation, when applied to elongated spaces. We propose a spatially varying, empirically derived diffusion coefficient, optimized against radiosity simulations, and…
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Autumn updates on CHORAS
CHORAS is a web-based user interface that allows users to run open-source acoustic simulation methods directly in the browser. It brings multiple open-source acoustic simulation software together in one place — making your (and others’) open-source room acoustics methods accessible through a unified UI. Whether you’re a student, researcher, consultant, material manufacturer, developer, or simply acoustics-curious, CHORAS…
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ASSA edition 2025!
🎓 ASSA2025 is a wrap! 🍂 What an incredible week it has been — full of learning, connecting, surrounded by the beautiful autumn hues of Eindhoven! We’re truly grateful for the inspiring atmosphere created by all our lecturers and participants — your energy and commitment made this edition unforgettable. ✨ A heartfelt thank you to our sponsors and partners, Open Science NL, Merford, YAN…
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Marco Berzborn new University Researcher in BA research group
Exciting News! We are delighted to announce that Marco Berzborn has joined the TU/e Building Acoustics group as a University Researcher! Marco will strengthen our collaborative research efforts, particularly by advancing our initiatives in open research software for acoustics. His expertise and enthusiasm will be a great addition to our team. A very warm welcome to Marco —…
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Ilaria Fichera wins EAA best paper and presentation award
During the closing ceremony of Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025 in Malaga, Ilaria Fichera has received the EAA Best Paper and Presentation Award for Young Researchers for her paper “A neural network for predicting with the diffusion equation: a case study of long rooms”, congratulations to Ilaria!
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Building Acoustics team shares research outcomes at Forum Acusticum Euronoise in Malaga
In June 2025, members of the Building Acoustics team have presented results from their research at t Forum Acusticum Euronoise in Malaga. In total, 8 papers were presented, and can be accessed via the links below: 🔹 Comparing Open Source Room Acoustics Simulation Tools: Performance and Usability InsightsLuc Dijkman, Niels Hoekstra, Maarten Hornikxpaper: https://lnkd.in/d3hyHFND 🔹 A neural…
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