Ville Topias Pulkki Explained

Ville Topias Pulkki
Birth Date:10 May 1969
Birth Place:Jyväskylä, Finland
Nationality:Finnish
Fields:Spatial sound,
Psychoacoustics
Workplaces:Aalto University
Alma Mater:Helsinki University of Technology
Doctoral Advisor:Matti Karjalainen
Thesis Title:Spatial Sound Generation and Perception by Amplitude Panning Techniques
Thesis Url:http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2001/isbn9512255324/
Thesis Year:2001
Known For:Spatial sound
Awards:AES Fellow (2010),
Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal (2014),
AES Silver Medal (2017)

Ville Topias Pulkki (born May 10, 1969) is a Finnish acoustics researcher and professor at Aalto University 2015–.

Education

Pulkki studied at the Helsinki University of Technology, where he obtained a Master of Science in Technology in 1994, and a Doctor of Science in Technology in 2001.

Career

Pulkki has received funding for his research from, for example, European Research Council (ERC), Fraunhofer institut and Academy of Finland. Pulkki is a fellow member of the Audio Engineering Society. In 2014, Pulkki was awarded the Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal for his significant research work surround and multichannel audio.

Pulkki was appointed docent of spatial sound at Aalto University in 2007–2012, an assistant professor in 2012–2015 and a professor in 2015.

Pulkki has co-authored Communication Acoustics with Matti Karjalainen textbook Communication Acoustics: An Introduction to Speech, Audio and Psychoacoustics (2015), published by John Wiley & Sons.

Awards and honors

Selected publications