Andi Petculescu named Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for extraterrestrial acoustics research

Andi Petculescu has been named Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America for his contributions to understanding acoustic waves in extraterrestrial atmospheres. The Acoustical Society of America is the premier international society promoting research in all aspects of acoustics, noise, and vibration. Among its Fellows are luminaries such as Allan D. Pierce (a ground-breaking pioneer in atmospheric and nonlinear acoustics, as well as acoustics education), Benjamin B. Bauer (inventor of the unidirectional microphone, with contributions to experimental underwater acoustics), and Leo Beranek (who built the first anechoic chamber and wrote numerous papers on noise control and electro-acoustics).

Andi's ongoing research includes studies of the acoustic characteristics of the environments of Titan, Mars, and Venus, wind-noise mitigation for Mars infrasound sensing, thunder generation and propagation on Titan, acoustic wavenumber prediction in Venus clouds and the absorption and dispersion of infrasound in Earth's lower thermosphere. Andi has recently been invited to join a newly-formed international team of 12 scientists, under the auspices of the International Space Science Institute in Bern, Switzerland, seeking to develop infrasound sensing and inversion algorithms to quantify venusquakes from high-altitude balloons as part of projected NASA/ESA missions to Venus. 


Andi Petculescu is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America as well as an active member of ASA's Emerging Technical Areas Task Force.