Praise for a Southampton acoustic engineer
Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) PhD student Daniel Fernández Comesaña has been honoured by the Spanish Acoustic Society for his work on Virtual Phased Arrays - a new measurement technique for localising sound sources.
He was awarded the Andrés Lara award at the Iberian Congress of Acoustics (Spain and Portugal) for the best work presented at the event in Evora in Portugal. His paper will be published in the Spanish Journal of Acoustics.
Daniel studied for a BSc degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Vigo then moved to the University of Southampton for his master’s in Sound and Vibration, which he passed with distinction, then remained in the UK for his PhD, which was supported by two scholarships and an industrial sponsor, Microflown Technologies. He is now completing his thesis at the research company in the Netherlands.
“I enjoyed my time studying at Southampton although it was challenging to study in a new language,” he says. “My work has wide applications in the localisation of noise and I found the research rewarding.”
Daniel has been researching how to gather, assess and evaluate sound accurately using just three sensors instead of a large microphone array.