Professor Damian Murphy  BSc (Hons), MSc, DPhil‌‌

Damian Murphy is Professor in Sound and Music Computing in the AudioLab where his research focuses on the development and creative application of immersive audio and virtual acoustic modelling, including room acoustic measurement and simulation, soundscape, auralistion and machine learning as used to understand our sound environment. He has been principal investigator on a number of AHRC and EPSRC projects related to these areas, securing more than £20m in funding, and published over 200 journal articles, conference papers and books in the area. He is the Director of the XR Stories Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Creative Industries R&D Partnership exploring the next generation of interactive and immersive storytelling for the UK’s creative screen industries.

 

He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a visiting lecturer to the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing at KTH, Stockholm, where he specialises in spatial audio and acoustics. He has also held visiting researcher status at MgGill University, Canada and Aalto University, Finland.

 

Professor Murphy is an active sound artist and in 2004 was appointed as one of the UK's first AHRC/ACE Arts and Science Research Fellows, investigating the compositional and aesthetic aspects of sound spatialisation, acoustic modelling techniques and the acoustics of heritage spaces. His work has been presented in galleries nationally and at festivals and venues internationally and included varied collaborations with writers, photographers, interactive digital artists.

Current and Recent Research Projects:

 

 

 

 

Digital Creativity Labs (EPSRC)