Philip Nelson

Biography

Professor Philip Nelson is Professor of Acoustics within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.   Philip Nelson worked from 1970 to 1982 as a research, development and consulting engineer for a 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 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 served as Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton from 2005-2013. In 2014 he was seconded to the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) where he was appointed Chief Executive Officer.

Research Interest

Research interests 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.