Professor Carl Hopkins, Head of the University’s Acoustic Research Unit in the School of Architecture, is to be awarded the prestigious Institute of Acoustics Engineering Medal.
A Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics, Professor Hopkins will be presented with his medal in September during the Acoustics 2016 conference in Warwickshire.
The Engineering Medal is awarded in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and development in the field of acoustical engineering. Previous recipients include Dame Anne Dowling from the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (currently President of the Royal Academy of Engineering) and Rob Harris who was previously a Director at Ove Arup & Partners and Leader of Arup Acoustics.
The Acoustics Research Unit has now won three medals from the Institute of Acoustics during a four year period as Professor Carl Hopkins won the Tyndall Medal in 2012, and Professor Barry Gibbs won the R.W.B Stephens Medal in 2015.
Professor Hopkins said: “In the Acoustics Research Unit we specialise in research on engineering acoustics and the Engineering Medal provides important recognition of this.”
His current research focuses on the measurement and prediction of sound and structure-borne sound in the built environment with applications to building, automotive, aeronautic, or marine structures.
Professor Hopkins has published a sole-author monograph on sound transmission in buildings that is referenced in British, European and international Standards. Research on the use of vibrotactile stimuli to facilitate interactive performance between musicians with hearing impairments was shortlisted for the 2013 THE award ‘Research project of the year’.
For more information on the work of the Acoustics Research Unit, visit: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture/research/acoustics-research-unit/about/