Sebastián Fingerhuth (Dr.-Ing.) Address Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica Av. Brasil 2147, Casilla 4059 Valparaíso Chile +56-32-227 3686 sebastian.fingerhuth@ucv.cl Personal Details Name: Sebastián Carlos Fingerhuth Massmann Date of birth: February 8, 1977 Place of birth: Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela Familiy status: Married since 2003, two daughters Citizenship: German, Chilean RUT: 8.967.654-1 Education 1983 1994 Primary and secondary school, Colegio Alemán, Temuco, Chile 1995 2003 Electrical engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile 2002 Pedagogic program in mathematics and physics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile 10/2003 10/2004 Student at the RWTH Aachen University, taking courses in acoustics and speech and signal processing: Medical Acoustics, Acoustical Measurement Techniques, Technical Acoustics Laboratory, Psychoacoustics, Digital Speech Processing I, Multimedia Communication Systems and DSP Laboratory 10/2004 11/2009 Ph.D. at the Institute of Technical Acoustics (ITA), RWTH Aachen University, with a scholarship of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Thesis: Tonalness and Consonance of Technical Sounds; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Vorländer. 07/2007 12/2007 Visiting Researcher at the Vibrations and Acoustic Laboratory, at INSA- Lyon, Lyon, France, with a scholarship of EDSVS (European Doctorate in Sound and Vibration)
Academic Degrees 01/2003 Diploma: Teacher for Mathematics and Physics, Profesor de Física y Matemáticas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile 09/2003 Diploma: Electrical engineer, Ingeniero Civil Electricista, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile 12/2009 Dr.-Ing. at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Research and Working Experience 07/2010 Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering (Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica) at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile 10/2005 11/2009 Research Assistant with a Ph.D. scholarship of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) at the Institute of Technical Acoustics at the RWTH Aachen University. Teaching functions: Exercise to the lecture Technical Acoustics (2006); supervising the exercise and practical session of the lecture Acoustic Measurement Techniques; supervising different stations of the Laboratory of Technical Acoustics; supervising bachelor and master thesis Other research projects and activities: measurement of the noise and vibration of electrical motors; psychoacoustic evaluation of noise; feasibility study for dew point prediction for natural gas pipelines; other projects in acoustic measurement and psychoacoustics 07/2007 12/2007 Visiting Researcher with a scholarship of EDSVS (European Doctorate in Sound and Vibration) at the Vibrations and Acoustic Laboratory, at INSA-Lyon, Lyon, France, with Prof. Etienne Parizet. Working on psychoacoustic evaluation of tonal sounds 10/2004 09/2005 Part-time Research Assistant at the Institute of Technical Acoustics at the RWTH Aachen University. Working in psychoacoustics and sound quality evaluation 11/2003 06/2004 Student Research Assistant at the Institute of Technical Acoustics at the RWTH Aachen University. Working with a stereo photogrammetric acquisition tool to measure head dimension of children 04/2002 12/2002 Practical training as Physics and Mathematics Teacher in a 10th grade, Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones, Santiago, Chile. 01/2001 02/2001 Practical Training at Studer Professional Audio AG, (Zürich, Switzerland) within a Research and Development team, working on a Room Impulse Response Measurement System for a Headphone Surround System 2000, 2002 Teaching Assistant in Modelos Estocásticos (2000), Prof. P. Prina, and Automatic Control Laboratory (2002), Prof. A. Guesalaga, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Technical Courses, Certificates, Computing and Language Knowledge 2007 One week course of the German Acoustical Society, on Psychoacoustics and Listening Tests under the supervision of Prof. J. Hellbrück 2009 One week course of the German Acoustical Society, on Room Acoustics and Public Address Systems under the supervision of Prof. M. Vorländer 2011 Chilean certified (SEC) electric installer Instalador Eléctrico Clase A del SEC Operating Systems: Applications: Computer Languages: Windows, Linux, MacOS Matlab and Simulink, several acoustic measurement softwares, MS-Office, LaTeX, software for revision control (CVS, SVN) Matlab (Matlab, Simulink, toolbox programming), C, Visual C++, Basic, Assembler (Microchip PIC) and basic knowledge in PHP, mysql and networks Spanish native German native English Very Good TOEFL:627 (2003) French Basic conversation and reading level Membership, Leadership and Activities Membership DEGA German Acoustical Society, since 2005 Membership IEEE Institue of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, since 2011 Membership ASA Acoustical Society of America, since 2009 Membership IING Insituto de Ingenieros de Chile, since 2011 Hobbies Photography, music, reading and sports Leadership 1997 & 1998 President of an university student community, Santiago Leadership 1990-2003 Organization and direction of youth summer camps and youth social work camps in a christian church, Santiago Leadership 2003-2008 Leader of a latin-american student society, Aachen
Publications in Conferences Fingerhuth, S., Dietrich, P., Gusky, M., Masiero, B.,Müller-Trapet, M., Pollow, M., Scharrer, R., ITA Toolbox. Un toolbox acústico para Matlab, INGEACUS 2011. Congreso Internacional de Acústica y Audio Profesional, Valdivia, Chile, 2011. Fingerhuth, S., Scharrer, R., Kasper, K., Método de análisis modal para motores eléctricos, XIV COCIM. Congreso Chileno de Ingeniería Mecánica, 2010. Fingerhuth, S., Tonalness and consonance of technical sounds, Dissertation RWTH Aachen, (2009), Logos Verlag Berlin. Fingerhuth, S., Dietrich, P., Kaldenbach, R., Mess-Blackbox zum Verständnis des Übertragungsverhaltens und der akustischen Messtechnik, Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2010. Fingerhuth, S., Scharrer, R., Kasper, K. A method for a modal measurement of electrical machines, Tecniacustica 2009, Cádiz, Spain. Fingerhuth, S., Dietrich, P., Pollow, M., Vorländer, M., Franck, D., van der Giet, M., Hameyer, K., Bösing, M., Kasper, K., De Doncker, R.W., Towards the auralization of electrical machines in Complex virtual scenarios, Tecniacustica 2009, Cádiz, Spain. Fingerhuth, S., Consonance and Dissonance: Evaluation of Electrical Machine Noise, Fortschritte der Akustik - NAG/DAGA 2009 Fingerhuth, S.,Parizet, E., Tonhaltigkeit von harmonisch komplexen Tönen mittels Größenschätzung, Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2008 Kasper, K., De Doncker, R., Scharrer, R., Fingerhuth, S., Vorländer, M., Experimental Modal Analysis of Electrical Machines Using Electromagnetic Excitation, Inter Noise, Shanghai, China, 2008 Fingerhuth, S., Parizet, E., Tonalness perception of harmonic complex tones, 2nd ASA-EAA joint conference Acoustics 2008 Paris 2008 Parizet, E., Bolmont, A., Fingerhuth, S., Subjective evaluation of tonalness and relation between tonalness and unpleasantness, 5th Symposium Automobile and Railroad Comfort 2008 Fingerhuth, S., Kasper K., Abstrahlrichtcharakteristik einer Geschalteten Reluktanzmaschine, Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2007 Sokoll, J., Fingerhuth, S., Psychoacoustic Properties of Fibonacci-Sequences, Proceedings of the POSTER 2007 Conference 2007 Sokoll, J., Fingerhuth, S., Psychoakustische Eigenschaften von Fibonacci-Folgen, Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2007 Fingerhuth, S., Vorländer, M., De Doncker, R., Kasper, K., Vergleich von subjektiver und berechneter Tonhaltigkeit bei Geschalteten Reluktanzmaschinen, Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2006 Fingerhuth, S., Kasper, K, De Donker, R., Vorländer, M., Evaluación psicoacústica en motores de reluctancia conmutada, Proceedings FIA 2006. V Congreso Iberoamericano de Acústica 2006
Fingerhuth, S., Vorländer, M., Klemenz, M., Kasper, K., Fiedler, J., De Doncker, R.W., Bewertung der Geräuschqualität von Geschalteten Reluktanzmaschinen durch psychoakustische Größen, Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 2005 Kasper, K., Klemenz, M., Fingerhuth, S., Vorländer, M., Fiedler, J., De Doncker, R., Psychoacoustic Quantities and their Relevance for Sound-Quality Optimization of Switched Reluctance Machines, 11th European Conference on Power Electronics and Application EPE05 2005 Fels, J., Fingerhuth, S., Anthropometric Data Acquisition using Photogrammetric Techniques to obtain Acoustic Head-Related Transfer Functions of Children, Proceedings of the POSTER 2004 Conference, CTU Prague 2004 Valparaíso, December 30, 2011