M. Ercan Altinsoy

M. Ercan Altinsoy received the Mechanical Engineering degree from the Technical University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, in 2005. He is currently a Professor of Acoustic and Haptic Engineering, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. After his Ph.D. degree, he worked with HEAD Acoustics as a Consulting Engineer. Since 2006, he has been with TU Dresden. His main research area is perception-based engineering. His research interests include vibroacoustics, vehicle acoustics, electroacoustics, haptic interfaces, haptic perception, whole-body vibrations, product sound, and vibration design. Dr. Altinsoy was a member of the International Graduate School for Neuroscience with Ruhr-University Bochum. He is a Lothar-Cremer Medalist of the Acoustical Society of Germany, Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Akustik (DEGA). He is the Chairman of the Vehicle Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) expert committee of DEGA and one of the core team members of the cluster of Excellence Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop. In 2018, he was awarded a Visiting Professorship from Tohoku University, Japan.