Professional activities // University of Oldenburg

Professional activities

Director, Dept. of Medical Physics and Acoustics, University of Oldenburg (2019-2023)
Chair of the Board of Examiners, Engineering Physics, University of Oldenburg (since 2018)
Deputy Member of Doctoral Board, School of Medicine and Health Sciences (since 2014)
Member of Extended Management Board in Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all (since 2013)
Member of Joint Committee Engineering Physics, University of Oldenburg (since 2011)

IEEE Signal Processing Society, Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee (2008-2013, 2017-2022)
EURASIP, Acoustic, Speech and Music Signal Processing Technical Area Committee (2016-2021)
EAA, Audio Signal Processing Technical Committee (since 2016)
ITG, Fachausschuss AT3 Sprachkommunikation (since 2014)
ITG, Fachgruppe „Signalverarbeitung und maschinelles Lernen“ (since 2009)
International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, Technical and Steering Committee (since 2013)
IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter, Technical Committee (2002-2007)
IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter, Secretary (1997-2002)

Senior Area Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (since 2021)
Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2015-2019)
Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2014-2019)
Guest Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Signal Processing Techniques for Assisted Listening (2015)
Guest Editor, Elsevier Signal Processing, Special Issue on Ad hoc microphone arrays and wireless acoustic sensor networks (2014)
Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Microphone Array Speech Processing (2009)
Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Advances in Multimicrophone Speech Processing (2006)
Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on DSP in Hearing Aids and Cochlear Implants (2005)

Technical Program Chair, International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, Bamberg, Germany, Sep. 2022.
Chair, 13th ITG Conference on Speech Communication, Oldenburg, Germany, Oct. 2018.
Area Chair, Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rome, Italy, Sep. 2018.
Finance Chair, AES International Conference on Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech, Leuven, Belgium, Feb. 2016.
Area Chair, Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France, Aug. 2015.
Technical Program Chair, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, USA, Oct. 2013.

Structured session on "Source localization and identification", Forum Acusticum, Torino, Italy, Sep. 2023. (with Prof. Fernandez-Grande, Dr. Leclere)
Special session on "Neural and Audio Signal Processing for Hearing Devices", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2020. (with Prof. Nogueira)
Special session on "Acoustic Scene Analysis: Fundamentals and Applications", International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), Aachen, Germany, Sep. 2019. (with Prof. van de Par)
Special session on "Acoustical Signal Processing for Hearables", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos, Greece, Aug. 2017. (with Prof. Nordholm)
Structured session on "Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for CI and Hearing Aids", 12th Congress of the European Federation of Audiology Societies (EFAS), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2015.
Special session on "Digital Signal Processing for Assistive Listening Devices", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brisbane, Australia, Apr. 2015. (with Prof. Jensen)
Special session on "Multi-microphone speech dereverberation", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Marrakech, Morocco, Aug. 2013. (with Prof. Habets)
Special session on "DSP for Hearing Instruments", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 2012. (with Prof. Göckler)