Dr Olga Umnova

Lecturer in Theoretical Acoustics

Contact details

Email: O.Umnova@salford.ac.uk

Telephone: 0161 295 4666

Location: Room 114 Newton Building

Profile

I joined the Acoustics, Audio and Video discipline at Salford in October 2004 as a Lecturer in Theoretical Acoustics. I got an MSc in Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (FizTech) and PhD in Acoustics from General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science.

Previous research positions

1998-2000 - Research Fellow, Open University

2000-2004 - Research Fellow, University of Hull

Teaching

I teach Principles of Acoustics and Psychoacoustics for Level 2, BSc and Acoustics and Signal Statistics for MSc degree. I also act as BSc final year projects coordinator

Research

My present research interests are: acoustics of porous media, scattering, nonlinear acoustics.

Current research projects

Time domain modellind of sound attenuation by porous materials, sponsored by EPSRC, value £147.433

Sonic crystal noise barriers, sponsored by EPSRC, value £194.795