Rate My Professor Damian Murphy

Professor Damian Murphy, holding a BSc (Hons), MSc, and DPhil, is Professor of Sound and Music Computing in the AudioLab within the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology at the University of York, a position he has held since joining the academic staff in 2000. Prior to York, he worked in the Performing Arts Department at Harrogate College and held positions at Leeds Metropolitan University and Bretton Hall College. Currently, he serves as the University Research Champion for Creativity and Director of the AHRC-funded XR Stories Creative Industries R&D Partnership. As principal investigator on multiple AHRC and EPSRC projects, he has secured more than £20 million in research funding. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and member of the Audio Engineering Society, Murphy has been a visiting lecturer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a visiting researcher at institutions including McGill University in Canada and Aalto University in Finland.

Murphy's research focuses on virtual acoustics, physical modelling, spatial audio, immersive audio, room acoustic measurement and simulation, soundscapes, auralisation, and machine learning applications in sound environments. With over 220 peer-reviewed publications cited more than 3,000 times, notable works include the co-authored book "Voice Science, Acoustics and Recording" (2008), "Boundary absorption approximation in the spatial high-frequency extrapolation method for parametric room impulse response synthesis" (2019, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America), and "Acoustic Heritage and Audio Creativity: the Creative Application of Sound in the Representation, Understanding and Experience of Past Environments" (2017, Internet Archaeology). He co-authored "SoundFX - Making Music with Technology," the 2004 IEE touring Faraday Lecture, and led the "Surrounded by Sound" project selected for the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition in 2001. An active sound artist and founding member of Geodesic Arts, his installations have been presented in galleries and festivals nationally and internationally. His honors include being one of the UK's first AHRC/ACE Arts and Science Research Fellows in 2004 and recipient of the Excellence in Media Arts award at the York Culture Awards in 2017.