Tapio Lokki

NEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

[12.12.2025] PhD Defence of Janne Riionheimo on the Hearing as Intended: How Differences in Listening Conditions Affect Sound Translation

[30.10.2025] I gave a talk in the Aalto Science Theater, youtube (in Finnish).

[19.12.2024] We have published 4 articles in the Journal of the AES in October, November and December issues.

[13.12.2024] Sujie Yu from PSL (Paris) visited us to measure aerogels and cryogels, read a news article

[25.11.2024] An article on auralization of Turku Fuuga concert hall in Helsingin Sanomat

[26.7.2024] PhD Defence of Nils Meyer-Kahlen on the Transfer-Plausible Acoustics for Augmented Reality, press release and PhD thesis

[22.5.2024] I am the Technical Chair at BNAM 2024 conference.

[7.10.2023] I was interviewed on my research in High Point Podcast.

[18.8.2023] I gave an invited keynote on "Perspectives on the acoustics of concert halls" in ISPS 2023.

[1.3.2023] I received Aalto ELEC Solutions for Sustainability Award on the work done together with Lumir.

[1.1.2023] I started as the Head of the new DICE department.

[16.12.2022] PhD Defence of Julie Meyer on the FDTD modeling method for room acoustics. press release and PhD thesis

[17.11.2022] I will be in the PhD evaluation committee of Randy Frans Fela at DTU, Denmark.

[7.10.2022] I will be in the PhD evaluation committee of Lucas Lenne at Nancy, France.

[1.9.2022] Room acoustics with carbon negative bio-based absorption material, check: press release and video.

[29.8.2022] I gave a keynote on Spatial RIRs and SDM in: FIA2022.

[1.7.2022] I'm hiring one PhD student to study porous materials: check the description of the open position.

[29.6.2022] I was in the PhD evaluation committee of Sarvesh Agrawal at DTU, Denmark.

[24.5.2022] PhD Defence of Raimundo Gonzalez on the acoustic scattering. (press release and PhD thesis

[14.3.2022] I gave a presentation on recent results on concert hall acoustics in Sorbonne University, Paris. Lecture in Youtube.

[14.2.2022] I'm visiting Matelys Research Lab in Lyon, France for two months.

[16.12.2021] PhD Defence of Otto Puomio on the parametric analysis and reproduction of room acoustics. (more info and zoom link) PhD thesis

[1.12.2021] I was granted the title "full professor" by Aalto University.

[15.10.2021] PhD Defence of Henna Tahvanainen on the seat-dip effect. (more info and zoom link) PhD thesis

[1.10.2021] Our course "Virtual Acoustics" was awarded based on the student feedback. (Link to news)

[26.5.2021] Two new articles on wood fibre-based acoustic materials. (press release)

[24.2.2021] Two new articles on movie sound (part 1 and part 2) published in Journal of AES.

[1.1.2021] My new position as Head of the Department started.

[10.11.2020] A press release on our two recent JASA articles.

[16.10.2020] New journal article on the angle-dependent absorption of porous materials.

[11.9.2020] New journal article on the scale model measurements of the seat-dip effect.

[10.9.2020] New journal article on recognizing concert halls with different music.

[1.9.2020] A book chapter published on the auditory spatial impression in concert halls.

[24.4.2020] New blog text on the rendering #stayhome orchestra in a concert hall (in Finnish).

[25.3.2020] A short interview at Aalto pages.

[2.3.2020] An hour long interview in a Finnish radio program.

[1.1.2020] I moved to SPA department inside Aalto.

[19.11.2019] I'm happy to contribute to a video highlighting Music Museum FAME and Genelec Smart IP.

[4.11.2019] I have been nominated as a honorary member of the Acoustical Society of Finland.

[22.5.2019] An article (in Finnish) on idea to enhance the acoustics of Musiikkitalo concert hall.

[22.5.2019] An article Architectural Features That Make Music Bloom in Concert Halls published in MDPI Acoustics.

[31.3.2019] An article Concert hall acoustics -- but on whose terms? published in Finnish Music Quarterly.

[8.3.2019] Great article by Kelsey A. Hochgraf on concert hall acoustics in Acoustics Today.

Research, Publications, and Scientific Activities

Virtual Acoustics, i.e. concert hall acoustics, auralization, sound rendering, spatial hearing, HRTFs, room acoustics modeling, perception, psychoacoustics, virtual auditory environments, sounds in virtual reality, auditory displays, eyes-free user interfaces, reverberation algorithms, multichannel reproduction, reverberation enhancement ...
See more on Virtual Acoustics research team's publications in Google Scholar.

Major academic research projects

[01.09.2023 - 31.08.2027] the Academy of Finland [grant no. 357389]. The topic is "Collective Experience of Music Performances with Augmented Acoustics".
[01.03.2019 - 31.08.2023] the EU Marie Curie ITN: VRACE "Virtual reality audio for cyber environments"
[01.01.2017 - 31.12.2020] the EU Marie Curie ITN: ACOUTECT "A sound fundament for our future buildings"
[01.09.2016 - 31.08.2020] the Academy of Finland [grant no. 296393]. The topic was "Immersive Concert for Homes (ICHO)".
[01.09.2012 - 31.08.2016] the Academy of Finland [grant no. 257099]. The topic was "Concert hall acoustics -- From sensory profiles to new objective criteria".
[01.07.2008 - 30.06.2013] the ERC Starting Grant agreement no. [203636]. The topic was "Physically-based Virtual Acoustics".
[01.08.2007 - 31.07.2012] the Academy of Finland grant agreement no. [119092]. The topic was "Physically-based Virtual Acoustics".

Publications

List of my publications, check also my ResearchGate page.
Citation analytics provided by Google Scholar, Scopus, and Orcid ID
Supervised/instructed theses
My blog (in Finnish)

Freely available research tools

SDM toolbox, for Matlab. A toolbox for spatial analysis and synthesis of room acoustic impulse responses.
Anechoic recordings of symphonic music.

Other major scientific activities and responsibilities

Head of the Department of Information and Communications Engineering at Aalto School of Electrical Engineering (2023-2025)
Head of the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics at Aalto School of Electrical Engineering (2021-2022)
Head of the doctoral programme committee at Aalto School of Science (2015,2017-2019)
Associate editor in ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (2015-2021)
President of the Acoustical Society of Finland (Akustinen seura ry) (2004-2018). In addition, board member (2002 -) and a honorary member (2019)
Associate editor in Acustica united in Acta Acustica (2009-2018)
General Secretary of the European Acoustics Association (EAA) (2013-2016)

Teaching

I'm the responsible professors of the major of Acoustics and Audio Technology in the CCIS MSc programme. In particular, I'm the responsible lecturer at the following courses:

ELEC-E5670 - Acoustical Measurements, MSc course

ELEC-C5250 - Akustiikan ja psykoakustiikan perusteet, BSc course

In the past I was responsible lecturer at the following courses:

ELEC-E5680 - Virtual Acoustics, 2021, 2022, 2023
ELEC-E5670 - Acoustical Measurements, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
CS-E5500 - Acoustical Measurements,
ELEC-E5630 - Acoustics and Audio Technology Seminar,2016, 2018, 2020, 2022
CS-C2000 - Ihminen havaitsijana, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
ME-E2420 - Room Acoustics, Spring 2016
ME-E4200 Experimental User Interfaces, Spring 2014, (for EIT ICT students, Fall 2013)
T-111.5501 - Seminar on Media Technology (visualization on acoustical measurements), results in Jasa-EL
T-111.5400 - Keinotodellisuus (Virtual Reality) (4 op) L (2008, 2007, 2006, 2004, 2003)
T-111.5600 - Special assingment in digital media (Digitaalisen median erikoistyö) (2-4 op) L (2007, 2006)
T-111.5080 - Seminar, interactive digital theatre (4-8 op) L (2006)
T-111.590 - Seminar, 3D sound rendering. (2002)

Old News

[21.11.2018] Aki Haapaniemi's PhD defence, Aki's thesis (open access).

[14.10.2018] New blog text on the design of concert halls (in Finnish).

[8.10.2018] Author in 4 papers and a talk in IOA Auditorium Acoustics. Check papers here.

[16.8.2018] A talk in The future of immersive sound event.

[12.6.2018] I was an editor of a special issue on Sound and Music Computing.

[29.5.2018] After extremely busy spring, one AES conference paper published.

[29.1.2018] New web pages of Aalto Acoustics Lab has been published.

[28.1.2018] New blog text (in Finnish)

[12.10.2017] I'll be in a PhD committee at Aalborg University.

[30.9.2017] My blog (in Finnish) at Aalto blogs.

[23.5.2017] I'm honored to be an AES fellow.

[17.2.2017] New article on sensory evaluation of car audio is published.

[2.2.2017] Open PhD student positions! ESR02 and ESR13 are in my team.

[9.1.2017] Final report of a hearing protection proto for musicians.

[10.11.2016] I gave a plenary lecture in Acoustics2016 in Brisbane, Australia.

[6.10.2016] G Livelab is opened, I designed the virtual acoustics system for this venue.

[12.9.2016] I gave a keynote in ISMRA2016 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[24.7.2016] A new article on acoustics of concert halls is published in JASA.

[6.6.2016] A brief interview at TEK120 - 120 osaajaa (in Finnish).

[30.5.2016] A blog text (in Finnish) that I wrote for the Academy of Finland.

[22.4.2016] Our team has released a free SDMtoolbox for Matlab.

[21.3.2016] A new article on emotional impact of music in concert halls is published in JASA. press release

[13.2.2016] How binaural audio can be used as a navigation aid, read our new publication and press release.

[30.11.2015] A blog text (in Finnish) on innovations in academia.

[24.11.2015] A presentation at Sensecamp'15 -- Spatial Audio in Denmark.

[19.11.2015] A new article on auditory distance perception in concert halls is published in JASA.

[29.10.2015] A pile of papers presented in IOA Auditorium Acousics in Paris.

[12.10.2015] A 2h lecture in SONORUS workshop in Göteborg, Sweden.

[24.8.2015] One-hour radio interview (in Finnish), link (Yle Areena).

[15.7.2015] A popular science event at Pori's SuomiAreena, videos (in Finnish).

[21.5.2015] A blog text (in Finnish) that I wrote for the Academy of Finland.

[1.4.2015] A new article The acoustics of vineyard halls, is it so great after all? published in Acoustics Australia.

[10.3.2015] A new article Auditory distance presentation in an urban augmented-reality environment published in ACM TAP.

[26.2.2015] Our new popular science article on concert hall acoustics in Europhysics News.

[6.1.2015] More international teaching this week in a BATWOMAN workshop in Detmold, Germany.

[14.11.2014] I gave a 4h lecture in PhD School on Advanced Psychoacoustics in Aalborg, Denmark.

[22.9.2014] I was interview for a BBC Radio 4 program called "In Search of the Ideal Music Venue".

[6.8.2014] I gave a talk in CHRG in Chicago, IL.

[15.6.2014] Our work featured in a blog of the Huffington Post

[3.6.2014] A new article on studio control room acoustics, check [here (JAES)] and listen to a demo

[29.5.2014] Two new articles published in Jasa-EL, check [here] and [here]

[7.5.2014] I gave the Vern O. Knudsen Distinguished Lecture (90 min) in the ASA 167th meeting

[6.5.2014] YLE Tiede made a good article of our research, including a long interview

[28.3.2014] Two radio interviews related to our PNAS article, listen to YLE/Kantapöytä and YLE1/Tiedeykkönen

[3.3.2014] Our article on music dynamics in concert halls published in PNAS. See press release (lehdistötiedote)

[17.1.2014] A blog post (in Finnish), related to Tekniikanpäivät2014 presentation.

[2.1.2014] A review article of our work in Physics Today. Read online.

[29.11.2013] I participated to live radio show on the quality of violins. Listen to it.

[29.8.2013] I was chosen to be a EspooAmbassador 2013, see more and a press article

[5.8.2013] An article (in Finnish) of the acoustics of Helsinki Music Centre (Musiikkitalo)

[10.6.2013] I gave a plenary lecture in ICA2013 and a keynote in ISRA2013

[5.6.2013] I received the ICA Early Career Award in ICA2013, read more in Finnish or English

[25.5.2013] I played demos to the President of Finland [in Finnish]

[15.5.2013] A concerto for piano and the loudspeaker orchestra at Design museum.

[26.4.2013] Good or bad acoustics in YLE/Strada and full "uncut" interview.

[15.4.2013] A live radio interview at Kultakuume program.

[2.3.2013] Article on the new spatial sound rendering method SDM.

[8.2.2013] The PhD defense of Raine Kajastila.

[2.2.2013] Article on the new analysis method for spatial impulse responses in JASA.

[24.1.2013] Article on the acoustics of Epidaurus is published in AAuA.

[30.11.2012] Another TV interview (in Finnish) on our work.

[24.11.2012] YLE TV News on our European measurement tour.

[11.11.2012] Story (in Finnish) on our European measurement tour. Listen also to a short radio interview.

[8.11.2012] Article on preferences and sensory profiles of concert hall acoustics is published in JASA.

[3.11.2012] My installation lecture on Virtual Acoustics.

[21.10.2012] A presentation (in Finnish) on concert hall acoustics, presented at Tiedeviikko 2012 .

[26.6.2012] Article on modeling rough surface reflections is published in JASA.

[8.6.2012] I got a major funding from the Academy of Finland for 2012-2016.

[1.6.2012] I started as an associate professor at Aalto SCI, Dept. of Media Tech. Announcement

[17.4.2012] Our article on localization of reflections is published in AAuA.

[13.2.2012] I participated to live radio show on the acoustics of the Helsinki Music Centre. Listen to it.

[24.11.2011] I gave a keynote speech in ISVA2011 on Recording and Reproducing Concert Hall Acoustics for Subjective Evaluation.

[8.11.2011] I was interviewed for Radiaattori (Finnish science program). Listen to it.

[27.10.2011] I received Academy of Finland Award in the Science Gala.

[21.10.2011] Paper by Pätynen et al. won the Best Student Paper Award in WASPAA2011

[10.10.2011] Article on lateral reflections in concert halls published in Jasa EL

[21.09.2011] I had a presentation on the acoustics of Epidaurus in the Conference of Ancient Theaters

[01.09.2011] In opening seromony of the academic year I received the Aalto Initiative of the Year Award

[20.08.2011] Sensory evaluation of concert halls is discussed in our JASA article

[28.06.2011] I presented a paper on the seat-dip effect in Forum Acusticum

[10.06.2011] Article on the quality of early reflection in concert halls published in Jasa EL, see also binaural demovideo

[21.05.2011] Our paper on frequency responses in concert halls presented in IOA Auditorium Acoustics conference. The paper received the first ARUP Acoustics Bursary Award

https://users.aalto.fi/~ktlokki/ updated November 10th, 2025

Professor, Head of the Department
Aalto Acoustics Lab
Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering

Room: E207a, A Grid building
Street address: Otakaari 5, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland
Postal address: P.O.Box 13100, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
Phone: +358 40 578 2486
Email: Tapio.Lokkiaalto.fi

NEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Research, Publications, and Scientific Activities

Teaching

Other Activities

Old News

Professor, Head of the Department Aalto Acoustics Lab Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering

Room: E207a, A Grid building Street address: Otakaari 5, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland Postal address: P.O.Box 13100, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland Phone: +358 40 578 2486 Email: Tapio.Lokkiaalto.fi

NEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Research, Publications, and Scientific Activities

Teaching

Other Activities

Old News

Professor, Head of the Department
Aalto Acoustics Lab
Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering

Room: E207a, A Grid building
Street address: Otakaari 5, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland
Postal address: P.O.Box 13100, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
Phone: +358 40 578 2486
Email: Tapio.Lokkiaalto.fi