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| Staff Patrizio Fausti patrizio.fausti@materiacustica.it |
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| Patrizio Fausti was born in Ripatransone, Italy, in 1960. He took a degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Bologna in 1988; at the same University he took a Ph.D. in Applied Physics (Acoustics) in 1993. Since February 1993 he has been working at the Department of Engineering of Ferrara University, initially as a researcher and now as an Associate Professor. Since 1995 he has taught at the School of Acoustics of the University of Ferrara. From 1997 to 2001 he held the “Applied Physics” course. Since 2001 he has taught “Thermal Physics of Buildings”, and since 2004 also “Building and Environmental Acoustics” and “Services in Buildings”. He is co-author of more than 90 papers in many fields of acoustics. He is a member of the academic board of the European Doctorate on Sound and Vibration Research. He is a member of the Institute of Acoustics (IOA UK) and of the Italian Association of Acoustics (AIA Italy). Since 2005 he has been the chairman of the Building Acoustics Group of the Italian Acoustical Association. He is associate and President of the University spin-off company “Materiacustica srl”, a consultancy and research company in acoustics. His main research activities have been devoted to room acoustics, noise control and building acoustics. In these fields he has carried out theoretical and experimental research on the acoustics of large multipurpose halls, on the acoustic properties of materials, on measurement techniques in room acoustics, on the use of scale models, on traffic noise prediction in motorways and urban roads, on low frequency noise annoyance, on laboratory and field measurements of airborne sound insulation using the sound intensity technique, and on the inter-comparison of laboratory measurements of airborne sound insulation of partitions. He has taken part in a number of national and international research projects: - intercomparison of Laboratory Measurements of Airborne Sound Insulation of Lightweight Plasterboard Walls, financially supported by the European Commission, co-ordinated by the Engineering Department of the University of Ferrara (two years); - new technologies for virtual acoustics applied to historical heritage, financially supported by the national Research Council of Italy (CNR) (four years); - innovation of structural clay products: improvement of the characteristics of acoustic insulation of masonry and flooring units, financially supported by the national Research Council of Italy (CNR) (four years); - Theatre History in Europe: Architectural and Textual Resources Online (Theatron project), financially supported by the European Commission (three years); - realisation of an acoustic controlled room for psychoacoustics research, financially supported by the Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research (Murst) (two years); - Identification, Evaluation and Revival of the Acoustical Heritage od Ancient Theatres and Odea (ERATO project) financially supported by the European Commission (three years). From 1998 to 2000 he was responsible for a local research project on the “development of technologies for the acoustic characterisation of space for music”. Since 2001 he has been responsible for a local research project on the “transmission of sound and vibration in buildings: experimental measurements and prediction methods”. He has collaborated with a team of acoustic designers in a number of studies for the building or restoration of theatres, multipurpose halls and sports halls. In the field of building acoustics he has collaborated in research projects with ANDIL (National Association of Tile and Masonry Block Industry) for the determination of the airborne sound insulation properties in laboratory and in the field of different types of brick partitions able to meet the requirements prescribed by the DPCM 5-12-97. He has carried out a large number of in situ qualification tests for building elements. He has taken part in a number of environmental acoustic impact evaluations of large infrastructure projects and in the design of sound reduction devices.   |
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