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Dr Francesco Aletta is a Lecturer in Building Physics and Soundscape at Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, University College London (UCL). His research focuses on environmental acoustics and soundscape studies. Francesco is committed to advancing soundscape research through his contribution to the ISO 12913 series on soundscapes, which provides a comprehensive framework for assessing and managing urban sound environments. Francesco’s research has informed international policy discussions. He authored a United Nations Environment Programme report in 2022, addressing emerging environmental concerns related to noise and its impact on public health and urban environments. His work is frequently referred in policy documents and guidelines aimed at promoting healthier and more sustainable sound environments globally. As part of his standardization efforts, Francesco coordinated the Soundscape Attributes Translation Project, an international collaboration of more than 100 scholars worldwide. He is also an active member of editorial boards for leading journals, including the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Coordinating Editor for TC Noise), and member of the organizing committee of several international conferences, including the Urban Sound Symposium, and the Lancet UK Public Health Science Conference. Francesco is a member of the Italian Acoustical Society (AIA), the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and serves as secretary of the Technical Committee Noise of the European Acoustics Association (EAA). With over 200 publications, 6,000 citations and multiple awards, including the ASA Science Communication Award in 2023, Francesco aims to contribute to the global discourse on soundscape design, urban acoustics, and public health.

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Noé Jiménez is a Senior Scientist at the CSIC since 2024. He develops his work at the Institute of Instrumentation for Molecular Imaging, a joint centre of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the CSIC. He is a Telecommunications Engineer, holds a Master's degree in acoustics and a PhD (2015) from the UPV. He has been a Ramón y Cajal senior researcher, Juan de la Cierva - Incorporation, Juan de la Cierva - Training, has worked at the CNRS (France) as a postdoctoral researcher for two years, and has made stays at Columbia University (NYC, USA), the University of Salford (UK), and the University of Le Mans (France). He has over 15 years' experience in developing imaging and therapeutic ultrasound systems, wavefront shaping techniques and acoustic metamaterials. His recent research interest ranges from the application of acoustic metamaterials for biomedical ultrasound applications, novel therapeutic ultrasound techniques, acoustic holograms, and acoustic vortices.

Website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/mark-plumbley

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Prof. Mark Plumbley is Professor of Signal Processing at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, in Guildford, UK. He is an expert on analysis and processing of audio, using a wide range of signal processing and machine learning methods. He led the first international data challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), and is a co-editor of the book "Computational Analysis of Sound Scenes and Events" (Springer, 2018). He currently holds a 5-year EPSRC Fellowship "AI for Sound" on automatic recognition of everyday sounds. He is a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, and a Fellow of the IET and IEEE.

https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/ana.sirovic

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Ana Širović is a marine bioacoustician and a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. Originally from Croatia, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California Santa Barbara and a PhD in Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego in the United States. She is interested in the development and use of new methods to improve understanding of highly exploited and endangered marine species. She also conducts research on ambient sound and the effects of anthropogenic noise on marine life. Her group uses acoustic tools to answer ecological, population-level questions relevant to the management of animal resources. Prior to joining NTNU, Prof. Širović was a faculty member at Texas A&M University at Galveston and Alaska Pacific University, and a research oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is the recipient of the Medwin prize from the Acoustical Society of America and the US Antarctic Service Medal.