Lukas Aspöck

Lukas Aspöck is a senior researcher and the academic manager at the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics at RWTH Aachen University, organizing and contributing to various research and teaching activities in the area of acoustic simulation and auralization. After receiving a diploma degree in computer engineering, he became a research assistant at the Institute of Technical Acoustics in 2013 and submitted his PhD thesis on the validation of room acoustic simulation in 2020. He is a member of the German Acoustics Association and the European Acoustics Association, where he is also the co-chair of the technical committee on Education. From 2019 to 2023, he was part of the steering committee of the Acoustical Knowledge Alliance (ASKnow), which created free online teaching material for five different courses on acoustics. Furthermore, he coordinates and maintains research software related to Auralization, e.g., the software RAVEN, a room acoustics simulation and auralization environment which is used by various researchers worldwide.