Dr.-Ing. Florian Voelk
- Dipl.-Ing. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Focus: Information transmission, Psychoacoustics, and audio signal processing
- Doctorate on interrelations of signal processing and auditory perception in the area of modern audio playback systems
- Lectures, trainings, and consultancy in the areas Electro- and Psychoacoustics, auditory perception, modeling of auditory system and loudness perception, digital signal processing, sound-field synthesis, loudspeakers, and headphones
Memberships
since 2006: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA, German Acoustical Society)
since 2007: Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
since 2007: Audio Engineering Society (AES)
since 2013: Verband der Elektrotechnik Elektronik Informationstechnik e.V. (VDE)
since 2013: Informationstechnische Gesellschaft im VDE (ITG)
2011: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Review activity for journals
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Acta Acustica united with Acustica
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
PLOS ONE
Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal (Springer)
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
International Journal of Audiology
Audiologische Zeitschrift
Noise Control Engineering Journal
Awards
2011: Audio Engineering Society Peer-Reviewed Paper Award for Convention Paper 8465 "Inter- and Intra-Individual Variability in Blocked Auditory Canal Transfer Functions of Three Circum-Aural Headphones". New York, USA.
2011: A supervised Bachelor Thesis receives Grant of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA, German Acoustical Society). Düsseldorf, Germany.
2010: International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) / Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Young Scientist Grant 2010 - For excellent contributions to Acoustics. Sydney, Australia.
2010: Young Scientist Travel Grant of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA). Berlin, Germany.
2008: A supervised Diploma Thesis has been awarded the Müller-BBM Zukunftspreis (future award) 2008. Munich, Germany.
Teaching activities
2014, 2016, 2017: Supervision of the lecture "Systemtheorie der Sinnesorgane", Fakultät für Elektro- und Informationstechnik, Technical University of Munich
several times per annum since 2014: Supervision of students in the Hauptseminar Bio-Inspired Information Processing, Technical University of Munich
2013: Lecture "Psychoacoustic experiments with loudspeaker based virtual acoustics", EAA Winter-School: Cutting Edge of Spatial Audio, Merano, Italy
2008 to 2012: Supervision of the lecture "Audiokommunikation" (Audio Communications), Fakultät für Elektro- und Informationstechnik, Technical University of Munich
2007: Supervision of the lecture "Technische Akustik und Lärmbekämpfung" (Technical Acoustics and Noise Control), Fakultät für Elektro- und Informationstechnik, Technical University of Munich
annually 2007 to 2013: Organization and supervision of the excursion of the Lehrstuhl für Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation, Technical University of Munich
several times per annum 2007 to 2013: Supervision of students in the Hauptseminar Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation, Technical University of Munich
several times per annum 2007 to 2013: Development and supervision of experiments in the practical course Praxis der Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation, Technical University of Munich
2007 to 2017: Supervision of 46 Theses (Master's, Bachelor's, PhD), Technical University of Munich
1994 to 2013: Teaching instruments (Trombone, Baritone, Bass-Trumpet, Euphonium, and Drums) for children and grown-ups in single and group sessions.
Session chairman at scientific conferences
- Initator and co-organizer of the structured session "Beiträge der Münchner Schule der Psychoakustik" ("Contributions of the Munich School of Psychoacoustics") in honor of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Fortschritte der Akustik, DAGA 2018, Munich, Germany, 22.03.2018
- Chairman Session "Noise rating and sound design", Fortschritte der Akustik, DAGA 2017, Kiel, Germany, 09.03.2017
- Chairman Session "Binaural Hearing", Fortschritte der Akustik, DAGA 2016, Aachen, Germany, 15.03.2016
- Co-Organizer and Co-Chairman Workshop "Spatial Sound Reproduction with Height: Why, Where, How, and When?", 132nd AES Convention, Budapest, Hungary, 28.04.2012
- Chairman Session "Psychological Acoustics 3", 20th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), Sydney, Australia, 22.08.2010
- Chairman Session "Psychological Acoustics 2", 20th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), Sydney, Australia, 23.08.2010