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Professor Philip Nelson
Professor of Acoustics / Deputy Vice Chancellor, Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics Group
Philip Nelson worked from 1970 to 1982 as a research, development and consulting engineer for a small UK company specialising in noise and vibration control. During this period he also graduated from the University of Southampton with a first class honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and with a PhD in Sound and Vibration Studies. He returned to Southampton to take up a lectureship in the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) in 1982, being promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1988 and Professor in 1994. He Chaired ISVR’s Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics Group from 1992, becoming the founder Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Gas Turbine Noise in 1999. He became Director of the ISVR in 2001 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton in 2005.
He has expertise in the areas of acoustics, vibrations, signal processing, control systems and fluid dynamics. His research interests include aeroacoustics, the active control of sound and vibration, flow control, inverse problems in acoustics, and spatial hearing. He has attracted research grants and contracts totalling over £6.3M, many of these being industrially sponsored. He has authored or co-authored two books, over one hundred articles in books and refereed journals, over thirty granted patents and over two hundred other technical publications. He is an experienced teacher at both undergraduate and post-graduate level and has successfully supervised 30 Doctoral and 35 Masters students. He was awarded, by the UK Institute of Acoustics, the 1992 Tyndall Medal (jointly with S.J. Elliott) and the 2002 Rayleigh Medal. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002. He served on the Panel for Mechanical, Aeronautical and Production Engineering in both the 2001 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises. He was also a member of the Council of the Institute of Acoustics from 1991-2000 and of the Board of the International Commission for Acoustics from 2001, serving as President of the International Commission from 2004-2007. He now serves on the User Panel of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
His current portfolio as Deputy Vice-Chancellor includes University-wide responsibilities for research, enterprise, human resources and strategic planning. He was also responsible, from 2005-2008, for the University’s submission to the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, for strategic management of University IT systems and for all aspects of health and safety management. He is currently responsible for the development of University-wide research strategy, with the particular objective of increasing research income generation within University Schools and of stimulating cross-disciplinary research through the initiation and development of University Strategic Research Groups. He also has oversight of the University’s enterprise activities, including the generation of spin out companies, the licensing of intellectual property and the development of relationships with industrial sponsors. He is a member the boards of the University of Southampton Science Park Ltd., University of Southampton Holdings Ltd., Southampton Asset Management Ltd., and the Wyvern Seedcorn Fund. He also serves on the CBI South East Regional Council, and the boards of Hampshire Economic Partnership and of the ‘SET-squared’ partnership of Southampton, Bristol, Bath and Surrey Universities. He is also a director of a number of spin out companies.
Areas of Speciality and Interest
Professor Nelson has particular research interests in the active control of sound and vibration, the automatic control of unsteady flow, inverse problems in acoustics with particular reference to noise source location and quantification, and multichannel signal processing techniques for the production of virtual acoustic environments.
Publications
List of recent publications
Other links
The Virtual Acoustics Project
Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics Group
Email: pan@isvr.soton.ac.uk
Database Updated by: SJB on 09 Feb 2010
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