Background
Blauert, Jens Peter was born on June 20, 1938 in Hamburg, Germany. Son of Werner and Hedwig (Mueller) Blauert.
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The field of spatial hearing has exploded in the decade or so since Jens Blauert's classic work on acoustics was first published in English. This revised edition adds a new chapter that describes developments in such areas as auditory virtual reality (an important field of application that is based mainly on the physics of spatial hearing), binaural technology (modeling speech enhancement by binaural hearing), and spatial sound-field mapping. The chapter also includes recent research on the precedence effect that provides clear experimental evidence that cognition plays a significant role in spatial hearing.The remaining four chapters in this comprehensive reference cover auditory research procedures and psychometric methods, spatial hearing with one sound source, spatial hearing with multiple sound sources and in enclosed spaces, and progress and trends from 1972 (the first German edition) to 1983 (the first English edition) -- work that includes research on the physics of the external ear, and the application of signal processing theory to modeling the spatial hearing process. There is an extensive bibliography of more than 900 items.
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scientist university professor
Blauert, Jens Peter was born on June 20, 1938 in Hamburg, Germany. Son of Werner and Hedwig (Mueller) Blauert.
Diploma engineering, Technology University, Aachen, Germany, 1964. Doctor of Engineering, Technology University, Aachen, Germany, 1969. Habilitation, Institute of Technology, Berlin, 1973.
DrTechn honoris causa, University Aalborg, Denmark, 1994.
His major scientific fields of interest are spatial hearing, binaural technology, aural architecture, perceptual quality, speech technology, virtual environments and tele-presence. He received his elementary and secondary education in Dresden and Hamburg and later received a doctorate in engineering after studying communication engineering in Aachen in 1969. 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.
After this he was honored as an emeritus professor
Blauert is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Institute of Acoustics, and the Audio Engineering Society. During his career he has authored or co-authored over 150 papers and has published books such as Spatial Hearing - the Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization (1983), a standard in this field
He has provided his professional expertise to the science community in several countries and has been asked to lecture at many universities worldwide, including Cardiff University. In 1999, he was bestowed with the Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America.
In 2009 he co-authored the book Acoustics for Engineers: Troy Lectures with Ning Xiang.
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Further, he is honorary member of the German audiological society, and the Polish Acoustical Society. He served as chairman of the ITG committee on electroacoustics, cofounder and chairman of the European Acoustics Association, president and vice president of the German Acoustical Society, an associate board member of the International Commission for Acoustics, member of the Environmental-Protection Council of the State of North-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 the German Standard Association.
Married Brigitte Raape, 1965. Children: Heike, Michael.