Professor
Greene Building, Room 203

518-276-3864

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, Ruhr-University Bochum; Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science and Musicology, Ruhr-University Bochum; Master of Science in Physics, Dortmund University 

Jonas Braasch is a Professor at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he teaches in the Graduate Program in Architectural Acoustics. He is also the Associate Director for Research at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), overseeing all of the center’s research activities.

Jonas obtained a master’s degree in physics from Dortmund University (Germany, 1998) and two Ph.D. degrees from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (2001, 2004) in Electrical Engineering/Information Science and Musicology. In 2006, Jonas was awarded the Lothar-Cremer Prize, the highest recognition of the German Acoustical Society for young investigators. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

Jonas’ research interests span collaborative virtual reality systems, binaural hearing, auditory modeling, multimodal integration, sensory substitution devices, aural architecture, and creative processes in music improvisation. Within his saxophone practice, Jonas Braasch developed the first method for wind instruments, using different sound generators to create a palette of sounds and styles using one main instrument to achieve an enhanced awareness of internal diversity.

For his work, he has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, DFG (German Science Foundation), the European Research Council, New York State Council on the Arts, the Christopher and Dana Reeve and Craig H. Neilsen Foundations.