Dr Simone Graetzer
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
Biography
I am a Senior Research Fellow in the Acoustics Research Centre. I am a Co-Investigator, Management Board member and EDI champion in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Sound Futures. I am Co-Lead in the EPSRC-funded Noise Network Plus.
My research is primarily funded by the EPSRC and Innovate UK. I am particularly interested in speech acoustics, speech communication in noise, human perception of sound and noise (psychoacoustics), sound quality assessment, hearing aid signal processing, and acoustics and psychoacoustics of low/zero carbon technologies including heat pumps.
I am Co-Chair of the Institute of Acoustics Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) working group and I contribute to the Research Coordination Committee. I am a member of the Acoustical Society of America and the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). I am the Vice President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SIG-SLPAT). I am on the UK and Ireland Speech Committee, the Computational Audiology Network board and the European Acoustics Association Technical Committee on Audio Signal Processing.
Areas of Research
Acoustics; psychoacoustics; sound quality; speech intelligibility, privacy and security; speech enhancement; speech signal processing for hearing aids; subjective evaluation of speech and audio; communication in noise; general speech and audio signal processing; soundscapes; listening effort/difficulty; machine learning for audio/speech; air source heat pump acoustics; noise policy