Maarten Hornikx
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Maarten Hornikx is a Full Professor Building Acoustics, Vice-Dean of the Department of the Built Environment, and he leads the Building Acoustics Chair of Unit Building Physics and Services (BPS). Hornikx’ research area is computational modeling sound propagation in the built environment. He has two target applications.
1) Development of sound reproduction in mixed reality platforms with applications in the built environments.
2) Application of numerical models to investigate all kinds of propagation effects as the role of vegetation on sound propagation outdoors and indoors and the influence of meteorological effects on sound propagation.
Hornikx is a fan of open research software and takes an active role in promoting this to leverage impact from research.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Maarten Hornikx obtained his MSc in Architecture, Building and Planning with a graduation project in Building Acoustics (2004) and his PhD in Applied Acoustics from Chalmers University of Technology (2009). Hornikx received a Marie Curie IF grant to conduct postdoctoral research at KU Leuven (2009-2011), worked as a part-time senior researcher at Chalmers (2011-2013) and returned to Eindhoven University of Technology in 2012 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 2019. Hornikx received another individual grant (Marie Curie Career Integration Grant) in 2012. At TU/e, he leads the Building Acoustics research group and coordinates the coherent course series Science of Sound and Music (since 2013). He has been the coordinator of the H2020-ITN project Acoutect. Since 2019, Hornikx has been vice-dean of the Department of the Built Environment and serves as the scientific director of the 4TU.Built Environment Center (2020-2021). Internationally, he has served as the chair of the Computational Acoustics Technical Committee of the European Acoustics Association and is Associate Editor of the association’s journal, Acta Acustica. In 2022, Hornikx became one of the first eScience center fellows. Hornikx has spend a research sabbatical at Aalto University and Stockholm University (2018), and at Politecnico Torino (2022).
Recent Publications
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Indra Sihar,Jieun Yang,Maarten C.J. Hornikx
Discontinuous Galerkin method for vibration of structures with piecewise constant material properties
Applied Acoustics (2024) -
Kerstin Persson Waye,Jesper Löve,Peter Lercher,Angel M. Dzhambov,Maria Klatte,Dirk Schreckenberg,Christin Belke,Larisa Leist,Gordana Ristovska,Sonja Jeram
Adopting a child perspective for exposome research on mental health and cognitive development
Environmental Research (2023) -
Yi Qin,Jin Jack Tan,Maarten Hornikx
Application of multiple dynamic vibration absorbers in reducing low-frequency vibration of a floor-like lightweight joist structure
Applied Acoustics (2023) -
Huiqing Wang,Maarten C.J. Hornikx
Extended reacting boundary modeling of porous materials with thin coverings for time-domain room acoustic simulations
Journal of Sound and Vibration (2023) -
Maud Dohmen,Ella Braat-Eggen,Astrid Kemperman,Maarten Hornikx
The Effects of Noise on Cognitive Performance and Helplessness in Childhood
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2023)
Current Educational Activities
- Architectural acoustics
- Acoustic awareness
- Masterproject BPS A Research
- Introduction building physics and material science
- Techniques in architectural acoustics
- Sounds good!
- Urban physics: wind, acoustics, insolation and precipitation
- The science of sound
- Masterproject BPS B Research
- Masterproject BPS design
Ancillary Activities
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