HEAD-Genuit-Foundation approves new research training group ‘MOSAIC’ at RWTH Aachen University, UKA and TU Berlin
The HEAD Genuit Foundation is supporting the establishment of the new research training group ‘Acoustic well-being in a multi-domain and context-dependent spatial approach (MOSAIC)’ at RWTH Aachen University. Coordinated by RWTH Aachen University, the RWTH Aachen University Hospital and TU Berlin are also involved. Professor Janina Fels from the Chair of Hearing Technology and Acoustics at RWTH and Professor Marcel Schweiker from the RWTH Chair of Healthy Living Spaces are the scientific directors.
The MOSAIC research training group is dedicated to researching acoustic well-being in different indoor and outdoor spaces and during various activities such as learning, working and relaxing. Special attention is paid to the new research area ‘Soundscape’, which investigates environmental factors and their influence on hearing perception.
The interdisciplinary research group takes into account numerous factors that influence the acoustic experience. These include interactions with temperatures, lighting conditions, air quality, room height and room geometry. Research is also being conducted into how people react physiologically to different acoustic environments. In order to answer these questions, the research group uses laboratory experiments as well as field studies, interviews and surveys.
A total of eight chairs are involved in the Research Training Group, including seven chairs at RWTH Aachen University and the UKA and one at TU Berlin. The participating chairs include:
- Hearing Technology and Acoustics (Professor Janina Fels)
- Healthy Living Spaces (Professor Marcel Schweiker)
- Energy-efficient construction (Professor Christoph van Treeck)
- Building and Indoor Climate Technology (Professor Dirk Müller)
- Occupational, social and environmental medicine (Professor Thomas Kraus)
- Urban Planning (Professor Christa Reicher)
- Housing (Professor Florian Fischer-Almannai)
- Psychoacoustics (Dr André Fiebig, TU Berlin)
‘The funding from the HEAD Genuit Foundation will give an important boost to research into acoustic well-being. The MOSAIC research training group is helping to gain sound scientific knowledge and develop innovative solutions for an improved acoustic environment,’ – Marcel Schweiker (translation)
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