Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schlecht

Sebastian J. Schlecht is an Associate Professor (W2) of Signal Processing at the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany, where he leads the Artificial Audio group. His research covers artificial reverberation, room acoustics, spatial audio for virtual and augmented reality, and differentiable and machine-learning methods for audio signal processing. He received a Diploma in Applied Mathematics from the University of Trier, Germany, in 2010 and an M.Sc. in Digital Music Processing from Queen Mary University of London, U.K., in 2011. He completed his doctorate at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, Germany, in 2017. From 2010 to 2020, he also worked as an external research and development consultant at Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen. From 2019 to 2024, he was Professor of Practice for Sound in Virtual Reality at Aalto University, Finland. His work has received several best paper awards, including from the Journal of the AES, IEEE WASPAA, DAFx (2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025), and AES AVAR.

More about the group, our research, and open thesis topics: https://artificial-audio.github.io/
Personal webpage: https://www.sebastianjiroschlecht.com/
Up-to-date publications: Google Scholar

I am always looking for motivated PhD students. Please get in touch and include your CV, study transcripts, and a short description of your research interests.