Mr. Lars Birger Nielsen

Lars Birger Nielsen, Product & Market Manager, Hottinger Brüel & Kjær A/S. Lars Birger Nielsen, born in 1959 in Roskilde in Denmark, started his academic studies of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Denmark in 1979. His professional career began in 1985 when he joined Brüel & Kjær in Nærum. He is mainly involved in electroacoustics, psychoacoustics as well as measurement technology relating to speech transmission quality and hearing simulation. He is active in ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP, IEEE, and IEC and is chairman of ITU-T SG12 Working Party 1. He is also Rapporteur for the Q5 working group in ITU-T SG12.

His fields of interest and research are in acoustic measurement technology, loudness assessment, auditory tests, speech and audio quality evaluations. After joining Brüel & Kjær his first project was together with a highly dedicated team to develop the Audio Analyzer Type 2012, which later became the industry standard for electroacoustic measurements. More recently he has been engaged in designing the High-frequency HATS Type 5128 together with a team of acoustic experts in Brüel & Kjær. Beside these two flagship products he has been instrumental for the market introduction of various other products, ranging from productions line couplers to advanced analysis software.