Jonas
Braasch, Ph.D., D.Eng.
Assistant Professor
School of Architecture
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180
Jonas Braasch was born in 1971 in
Wipperfürth, Germany. From 1992
until 1998, he studied Physics at the University of Dortmund where he
received a diploma degree. Afterwards, he obtained a three-year
doctoral scholarship within the graduate school "KOGNET" (cognition,
neuronal networks) at the Ruhr-University Bochum. In 2001, he received
a Doctor-of-Engineering degree for his thesis: "Auditory Localization
and Detection in Multiple-Sound-Source Scenarios", in which he
investigated the human ability to localize sound sources in a
multi-source environment. He also investigated the precedence effect
and simulating human hearing in reverberant conditions. Jonas Braasch
second field of research is related to musical acoustics (History and
Technology of Musical Instruments). He has conducted a number of
investigations on the free-reed stops of concert-hall and church
organs. In 2004, he completed his Ph.D. thesis in this field at the
Institute of Musicology of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Through the
years 2004-2005, Jonas Braasch worked in the Sound Recording Area of
the Faculty of Music at McGill University as Research
Associate/Assistant Professor. In Jan. 2006, Dr. Braasch started as
Assistant Professor in the Program in Architectural Acoustics at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
