Jens Ahrens
Professor at KFB Acoustics
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolJens Ahrens is a professor at Chalmers University of Technology with 11+ years of focused research experience in audio, acoustics, and spatial audio. His career blends academic leadership—rising from researcher to associate professor and now professor—with industry collaboration, including a visiting role at Meta Reality Labs and a scientific advisory position at KFB Acoustics. He has a strong international background from institutions like TU Berlin, Stanford, and Microsoft Research and holds a doctorate in audio and acoustics with distinction. Jens contributes to open-source spatial audio tooling through the Applied Acoustics Chalmers GitHub and co-develops the SoundScape Renderer, reflecting a commitment to reproducible, application-oriented research. He is based in Gothenburg and invites direct contact by email for collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Research Doctorate, Audio and Acoustics, with distinction, Research Doctorate, Audio and Acoustics, with distinction at Technische Universität BerlinDiplom (equiv. to Master of Science), Electrical Engineering / Audio Engineering, with distinction, Diplom (equiv. to Master of Science), Electrical Engineering / Audio Engineering, with distinction at Technische Universität Graz
Github Skills (25)
microphone10
midi10
audio10
renderer10
music10
spectrogram9
wave9
pitch8
signal-processing8
matlab7
synthesis6
python6
visualization6
react5
mocap5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SoundScapeRenderer/listening-test
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Resources for conducting listening experiments with SSR
Contributions:7 reviews, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 4 years
reactlisteningspectrogramwavessr
AppliedAcousticsChalmers/sound-source-directivities
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 62 commits, 60 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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