Jens Peter Blauert (born 20 June 1938 in Hamburg[1]) is a German scientist specializing in psychoacoustics and an emeritus professor at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he founded the Institute of Communication Acoustics.
Blauert was born in Hamburg on June 20, 1938 to Werner, a university lecturer and Hedwig.
[2] During his career he has authored or co-authored over 150 papers and has published books such as Spatial Hearing - the Psychophysics of Human Sound Localization (1983), a standard in this field.
[2][6] He served as chairman of the ITG committee on electroacoustics, cofounder and chairman of the European Acoustics Association, president and vice president of the German Acoustical Society,[4] an associate board member of the International Commission for Acoustics, member of the Environmental-Protection Council of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, board member and cofounder of the European Speech-Communication Association, and board member and cofounder of the section on noise and vibration, of the German Standard Association.
[2] In 1999, he was bestowed with the Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America.