CV Prof. Samir N. Y. Gerges

Prof. Samir N. Y. Gerges is currently Professor of the Noise and Vibration since 1978 at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory of Acoustics and Vibration, Brazil, where he teaches acoustics, noise control and signal processing for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Founder of the Industrial Noise laboratory (LARI) at UFSC and supervisor of LARI.

Founder member of the Brazilian Acoustical Society (SOBRAC) in 1983. He was President from 1994 to 1997 and again from 2000-2002. Editor of the SOBRAC Journal. Founder member and currently Vice President of the Ibero-american Federation of Acoustics - FIA (A joint 7 acoustical societies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Portugal and Spain).

He is President of ICA, Vice President I-INCE for development. President and organizer of INTERNOISE 2005 RIO. Fellow’s member of ASA. Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Building Acoustics and International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration. Member of the International Advisory Committee of Inter-Noise 99, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

He is a member of IIAV board director (Fellow member 1999), INCE-USA (Professional recognition) and ASA. Member of WHO organization - Geneva working group for elaborating a book on “Evaluation and Control of Noise Exposure in the Work Environment” and author of two chapters – 2001 edition.

Prof. Gerges has received the “Non-Tenured Faculty Awards” from 3M; Annual Award from CIPA Brazilian journal for safety in 1998.

His current interests include hearing protectors, experimental and numerical vibro-acoustics analysis for industrial and vehicle applications and general room acoustics.

He has published the book “Ruído: Fundamentos e Controle” in the Portuguese (1st edition in 1992 and 2nd edition in 2000 – 700 pages) and in Spanish languages in1998. Also a 700 A4page book on Vehicles Noise and Vibration 2000