On Friday 22nd August, Professor Jakob Søndergaard Jensen held his inaugural lecture. Representatives from industry together with colleagues from DTU MEK, DTU ELEKTRO and numerous friends and other acquaintances, found their way to meeting room 1 in DTUs main building on this late summer afternoon.
Jakob Søndergaard Jensen who started as a professor at DTU Electrical Engineering on the 1st January 2014 is head of the new Centre for Acoustic-Mechanical Micro systems (CAMM). The CAMM Centre, which is partially funded by the three large hearing aid Companies; GN Resound, Widex and Oticon will have staff members from both DTU Elektro and DTU Mek. on board.
Jakobs’ background in dynamics of linear and nonlinear mechanical structures, combined with the application of topology optimization in mechanics, acoustics and acoustic-mechanical interaction, makes him ideally suited to leading the research at CAMM. Jakob says “CAMM focuses on precompetitive research within mechanics, acoustics and acoustic-mechanical interaction for objects at the micro-scale. Advanced dynamics and optimization is an important part of the future research”
After an introduction by Institute representative, Professor Michael Andersen, where Jakob was officially welcomed to the institute, we were taken on “A journey on waves, nonlinear vibrations and topology optimization to the micro world of acoustic devices”. The title of the lecture lived up to its promise and the 60 or so guests were taken on an exciting journey where Jakob provided us with an overview of his previous research activities, linking them to the new research activities.
The advent of advanced optimization tools and techniques for high precision manufacturing, even of microscopic details, now allows us to conceive, design and realize highly complex structures and materials with both fascinating and novel properties. The talk highlighted the main research achievements within diverse engineering fields such as photonic crystal waveguides, acoustic and elastic wave propagation and nonlinear mechanical vibrations. Finally, the lecture pointed towards future applications in the area of acoustic micro devices; an emerging field where complicated interaction between acoustics and mechanics at the micro scale creates both new challenges but also great opportunities.
"""There are so many interesting scientific challenges in this area - it is a dreamland for a researcher" " "
Jakob Søndergaard Jensen
After the lecture, Michael Andersen congratulated Jakob and guests were invited to a reception where there was time for guests to personally congratulate Jakob and for participants to mingle amongst the other guests present.
Congratulations to Jakob.