Dr Lamberto Tronchin is Associate Professor in Environmental
Physics from the University of Bologna and is recognised
internationally as a leading authority on the subject of sound and
acoustics.
A pianist himself, with a diploma in piano from the
Conservatory of Reggio Emilia, Dr Tronchin's principal area of
research has been musical acoustics and room acoustics. He is
the author of more than 270 papers and was Chair of the Musical
Acoustics Group of the Italian Association of Acoustics from 2000
to 2008.
Dr. Tronchin was appointed President of Italian Section of AES for 2018-2020 and 2020-2022
Dr Tronchin is Associate Editor of the Journal of the Audio
Engineering Society; a member of the Scientific Committee of
the CIARM, the Inter- University Centre of Acoustics and Musical
research, has chaired sessions of architectural and musical
acoustics during several international symposiums, been a referee
for a number of International journals and is Chair of Organising
and Scientific Committees of IACMA (International Advanced Course
on Musical Acoustics).
He was a visiting researcher at the University of Kobe in Japan,
a visiting professor at the University of Graz in Austria and
Special honoured International Guest at the International Workshop,
‘Analysis, Synthesis and Perception of Music Signals', at Jadavpur
University of Kolkata, India in 2005. He has chaired the
International Advanced Course on Musical Acoustics (IACMA),
organised with the European Association of Acoustics, which was
held in Bologna, in 2005. In 2008 and 2009 he gave plenary lectures
at International Congresses on Acoustics in Cambridge (UK), Paris,
Vancouver, Prague, Bucharest, Santander, Kos, Malta, Rodi, as well
as at WIELS in Bruxelles.
Dr Tronchin holds a Masters Degree in Building Engineering
and a PhD in Applied Physics (Architectural Acoustics) from the
University of Bologna. He has completed advanced courses on the
Mechanics of Musical Instruments at CISM, Udine, Italy and on Noise
and Vibration at the University of Southampton in the UK where he
has also worked as a visiting researcher. He has held a post
Doctoral Scholarship in Room Acoustics. He designed
theatres and other buildings, as acoustic consultant, in
collaboration with several Architects, among them Richard
Meier and Paolo Portoghesi.
He is inventor of an international patent with Alma Mater
Studiorum: "Method for artificially reproducing an output
signal of a non-linear time invariant system"
He is Director of the Master in Environmental Technologies for the Physical Agents of UNIBO.
He is General Chair of I3DA2021 and i3DA2023 International Conferences
He is listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists 2024 (Stanford University)
