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Meet the PHE team

The PHE project is an international collaboration across 3 countries : UK, Italy, and France. Each country has a Principal Investigator who then leads an interdisciplinary team.

The PHE project puts great emphasis on collaborations both between disciplines and across institutions.

Here are the various members of the different teams, with their research interest statement relative to the projet.


UK

University of York

Department of Electronic Engineering

The Department of Electronic Engineering AudioLab is an outward facing, multi-disciplinary group of academic researchers that apply signal processing, acoustic modelling, and machine learning with experimental work in psychoacoustics and perception, to produce world-leading research in audio with impact across society. There is a strong record of accomplishment working with industry, applying diverse intra-disciplinary expertise to present creative solutions for audio and acoustic applications with companies including Google, Huawei, BBC, Meridian Audio, ARUP and AECOM. Core research areas include Immersive and Interactive Audio, Environmental Soundscape, Voice Science, and Health and Wellbeing.

  • Murphy, Damian (PI)
  • Popp, Constantin
  • Fotinou, Aglaia

Department of History

The Department of History carries out ground-breaking research of significant chronological breadth and geographic and thematic scope. The department was ranked 2nd in the UK for the research quality, significance, and impact (2014 Research Excellence Framework).

  • Cooper, John

Italy

University of Parma

Dipartimento Ingegneria ed Architettura (DIA) & Dipartimento di Discipline Umanistiche, Sociali e delle Imprese Culturali (DUSIC) At UP the study of spaces for performing arts has a long history, linked to the city’s cultural heritage strongly interconnected with the history of opera and opera houses. UP is cooperating with local musical institutions and the municipality in a number of initiatives, culminating in international events such as the Festival Verdi, and the designation of Parma as the Italian Capital of Culture 2020. The most evident proof of success of this cooperation between the two departments of UP and the municipality is Casa della Musica: a performing space (both indoor and outdoor), museum, and the research lab of acoustical engineering of DIA. It hosts the archives of the Verdi Foundation, offices and classrooms for the Musicology group of DUSIC, and Casa del Suono, an exhibit of ancient and modern sound reproduction devices. It also houses an advanced research centre equipped with a 189 loudspeakers WFS system and 4 full-HD video projectors for fully immersive audio-visual reproduction, and an installation for virtual acoustics performances featuring a dome with 226 loudspeakers, employed for live concerts of electronic music.

Department Of Engineering And Architecture

  • Farina, Angelo (PI)
  • Antonella, Bevilacqua
  • Farina, Adriano
  • Lavagna, Lorenzo

Advanced Industrial Design in Acoustics (AIDA)

  • Armelloni, Enrico

University of Catania, Department of Law

  • Mottese, Elisabetta

University of Bologna, Department of Architecture

  • Tronchin, Lamberto

Polythechnic of Turin

  • Astolfi, Arianna : Graduated with honors in Architecture from the Politecnico di Torino and obtained her PhD in Technical Physics from the University of Genova. She is associate professor of building physics at the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Torino since 2015, where she teaches building physics and applied acoustics and is responsible for the Applied Acoustics Laboratory. She is a member of the academic council of the PhD course in “Management, production and design” of the Politecnico di Torino and of the National council of the Italian Acoustic Association. She is co-chair of the technical committee of Room and Building Acoustics of the European Acoustical Association and is a member of the UK Institute of Acoustics and of the Acoustical Society of America. She created two start-ups incubated in the I3P incubator of the Politecnico di Torino. In 2017 she obtained the national scientific qualification for the role of full professor in Italian universities. She is author of more than 60 peer-reviewed articles published in international journals on the themes of classroom acoustics, voice monitoring, concert-hall acoustics, acoustic materials, soundscape and sound insulation.
  • Shtrepi, Louena : Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy “Galileo Ferraris” since 2018. She holds a university degree in architecture both from Politecnico di Torino and from Politecnico di Milano. She received her PhD degree in 2015 in Metrology: Measuring Science and Techniques, rewarded with the Newman Medal (Newman Student Award Fund and Acoustical Society of America) for excellence in the study of acoustics and its application to architecture. Her research and teaching interests rely on applied acoustics, more specifically in room acoustics and building acoustics. Since 2012, she started working on acoustic materials properties, room acoustics, soundscape and archaeoacoustics. These aspects have been deeply studied in multidisciplinary investigations that involved also measurements, different simulations techniques and subjective perceptual testing. Her research results have been published in highly rated journals and rewarded with several grants at different conferences.

France

Sorbonne Université

Institut d'Alembert

The Institute Jean Le Rond d’Alembert (IJLRA) is a research laboratory whose aim is to extend the field of knowledge in all fields of Mechanics. This team brings their expertise in acoustics, spatial hearing and perception, room acoustics, psychoacoustics, audio and multimodal interfaces, and VR for the blind.

  • Katz, Brian FG (PI, project coordinator) : Has worked in the area of virtual acoustic reconstructions of historic buildings for almost 15 years, starting with the reconstruction of the Fogg Art Museum, where the science of room acoustics was founded by W.C. Sabine. His work has focused on examining the technological and perceptual limits of realistic and credible acoustic simulations. Most recently, the work is currently being directed towards VR simulations as an assistive device for the visually impaired to prepare visits to unknown buildings as part of the ANR-RASPUTIN project.
  • De Muynke, Julien
  • Mullins, Sarabeth
  • Poirier-Q., David
  • Canfield-Dafilou, Elliot Kermit

Centre André Chastel (CAC)

The Centre André Chastel (CAC), is a research laboratory in Art History with expertise in monumental art and architecture, in particular concerning Paris and its Heritage.

  • Sandron, Dany
  • Dagalita, Cristina : Art historian, specialized in the religious art of the Middle Ages, post- doctoral researcher in Sorbonne University. Her study relates to the permanent or temporary decoration that would have modified the sound reverberation in Notre-Dame cathedral at eight significant dates, from the consecration of the church, in 1182, until the beginning of the 21st century. Those adornments were mainly textiles, paintings and furniture. They are referred to in archival or printed sources, and in the bibliography. Research for similar items is useful in terms of materiality and also for modelling purposes. The results are gathered in a single Excel file, available on the PHEND project dropbox. They could be useful for any type of reconstruction of the cathedral’s interior throughout history, especially for 3D modelling and AR applications.

Institut de recherche en Musicologie (IReMus)

The Institute of Research in Musicology (IREMUS) develops researcher covering a vast chronology from the Middle Ages to contemporary music, addressing many sub-disciplines of musicology (historical and systematic, ethnomusicology, contemporary popular culture, musical institutions, sociology, cognitive psychology, aesthetics, and digital musicology), and promotes musical heritage conservation.

  • Billiet, Frédéric : Coordinator of the program of musical medieval Iconography Musiconis since 2011. He directed the publication and the recording of La Messe de la Sorbonne, PUPS et Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Paris et Cité du Vatican, 2012.
  • Caseau, Béatrice : Professor in Byzantine history, in the medieval section of the history department. She was the director of a research cluster on Religions and society in the Mediterranean (Labex RESMED 2015-2021). She is now a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. Her research focuses on religious and social history. She has published 2 volumes of collected essays (1336 pages) with N. Bériou and D. Rigaux on Eucharistic practices (Pratiques de l’eucharistie dans les Églises d'Orient et d'Occident (Antiquité et Moyen Âge), Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 2009. Her most recent publication is on the history of the senses in Christian rituals. (Rituels religieux et sensorialité (Antiquité et Moyen âge) Parcours de recherche, with E. Neri, Milan, Silvana Editoriale, 2021). Her Phd was on the christianization of perfumes, such as incense and the holy chrism. She now moves into the world of sounds, interested in voices (especially choirboys, but also women) and in questions of audibility and intelligibility.
  • Le Page, Valerie
  • Buchs, Numa

Sunmetron

Sunmetron in an architecture firm specialized in National Heritage diagnosis and restoration, plus high-tech applied to old monuments. The firm is currently working on three churches for the city of Paris (St-Ambroise, St-Joseph-des-Nations, St-Martin-des-Marais) and a 3D model of Saintes amphitheatre, on the World Heritage List. E. Ricaud, manager of the Paris firm, is a Preservation Architect and historian of building techniques. Activities include research for the INHA (National Institute of Art History) about 19th c. cathedral spires, built after that of Notre-Dame.

  • Ricaud, Elsa : A 15-year experience with historical sources for the French monuments (diocese archives, specialized library for National Landmarks) that will facilitate research relevant to the acoustics within Notre-Dame. Her background as a Preservation Architect will aid in uncovering clues related to acoustic pertinent decorations. She can also act as mediator between the project consortium, the Chief Architect for National Landmarks (ACMH) and the Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Monuments Historiques which is working on the current emergency restoration of Notre-Dame.
  • Morisseau, Germain
  • Borne, Hanna

Narrative

Narrative is an audio-visual production company specializing in transmedia and 3D sound. Since 2008, they have worked on documentary creation for new media and mediation for heritage and museums following the realization that new media is a great field of experimentation for authors. Each story is considered in its context combined with the development of audio-visual, interactive devices, interfaces, and installations to bring immersive and transmedia experiences to life.

  • Cros, Cécile
  • Cacheux, Simon

Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (MSH) Lyon St-Etienne

The Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH) Lyon St-Etienne brings together 52 research laboratories spanning the spectrum of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Pôle Image Animée Audio (PI2A) will contribute to the project. This division includes staff dedicated to audio and video. Two main poles of activity including an audio pole - oriented towards intangible heritage and archaeology of the sound landscape (study, analysis, and restitution). Collaborations in historical sound restitution have benefited both museums and research laboratories.

  • Pardoen, Mylène
  • Guesney, Martin
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