Professor Avraham Hirschberg is Professor of Gas Dynamics/Aero-acoustics of the Technical University of Eindhoven and part-time Professor of Experimental Aero-acoustics of the University of Twente. He has 27 years’ research experience in the field of aero-acoustics. He is co-author of 69 refereed journal articles, and also of 5 book chapters, on diverse topics within his field. During his long teaching career, he has delivered 35 undergraduate and 19 postgraduate lecture courses on Aero-acoustics, and provided 6 published lecture notes, e.g. S.W. Rienstra and A. Hirschberg (2009) An introduction to acoustics. Report IWDE 92-06, revised, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
He has been involved as a full partner in the following European research projects:
FLODAC: EC Brite-Euram Project ‘Modelling Sound Generation and Propagation in Fluid Machinery Systems’ 1997-2000
AETHER: Marie Curie RTN Project ‘Aero-acoustic and thermo-acoustic coupling in energy processes’, 2006-2010
He has also contributed to the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI)
He has collaborated on several industrial research projects with companies, such as Gasunie, TNO, Shell, Kema, OCE, Philips, CNES, EDF and Siemens PLM Software.
Editorship:
Member of the Editorial Board of Experiments in Fluids
Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Society membership:
Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
Member of the Nederlandse Akoestisch Genootschap (NAG)
Member of Société Française d’Acoustique (SFA)
Honours:
Médaille Étrangère of the SFA (1997).