Anna Preis

During the event you wil have a chance to familiarize yourself with the research field of Anna Preis – “advocate of silence”.

Currently, she is a professor at Department of Physics at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan. She holds a Head position in the Institute of Environmental Acoustics of the Institute of Acoustics also at UAM. Two of her many interests are: perception of environmental sounds and theory of hearing. Students can derive from her knowledge in many classes like: acousticas of environment, musical acoustics or psychophysics. 

This polish physicist and acoustician earned her doctorate title in 1982  based on the thesis about physical and psychoacoustics basis of tone color differentiation and evaluation. Work on decomposition of noise factors brought her habilitation degree seventeen years later. She gain scientific experience a.o. at Technical University of Munich, Stokholm University, Tokio University and Osaka City University. Worth mentioning is her membership in Polish Acoustical Society, The International Society for Psychophysics and European Acoustics Association. She also sits in Acoustics Committee of Polish Academy of Science. 

She was engaged in work about “Violinists perceptions of and motor reactions to fundamental frequency shifts introduced in auditory feedback” (2016, with Hafke-Dys and Kaczmarek). However, her scientific work mainly focuses on current issues in the field of psychoacoustics and environemntal acoustics – we can mention here about 40 years of experience in R&D connected with noise nuisance and auditory perception. She “stood guard” on WHO environmental guidelines on noise and health implications.  One of her last recent article is  “Evaluation of Annoyance Due to Wind Turbine Noise Based on Pre-learned Patterns” written with Felcyn and Gogol (2022).  She has the most contribution in environmental and social space of themes. You can see pieces published by Preis for example in "Journal of Sound and Vibration", "Noise Control Engineering Journal" oraz "Archives of Acoustics”. Her attitude is based on knowledge integrated from different disciplines like acoustics, psychology or cognitive science.