Diogo Alarcão

Diogo Alarcão (born 1970 in Lisbon) has a degree in Engineering Physics and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the topic of Room Acoustics and Virtual Acoustics (IST – University of Lisbon).
Presently, he is an Assistant Professor of the Lisbon School of Music (ESML – Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon) in the area of Music Technologies. He is a member of the Representatives Council and of the Pedagogic Council of the School.
Diogo is also a researcher of the Group of Acoustics and Noise Control of IST, where is has been a principal researcher for many years, giving additionally classes in the Master in Environmental Engineering, Master in Architecture and in the DFA in Acoustics of IST.
He is co-ordinator of the technical standardising sub-commission “Physical Acoustics and Psychoacoustics” (CT28), member of the Portuguese Acoustical Society (SPA), and member of the EGC Expert Panel of the European Commission. He was assistant co-ordinator of the Specialization in Acoustical Engineering of Ordem dos Engenheiros until 2023.
His area of expertise are the mathematical-physical models of the acoustics of enclosed and open spaces. He was responsible for the “Virtusound” project (real-time acoustic simulation and auralization of virtual spaces) and for the projects “ACUSVMOTTA – Determination of the objective acoustic quality of the Vianna da Motta Auditorium of ESML” and “AURA3D – 3D Auralization”. Presently, he is the principal investigator of the IDICA project “REVERBDATA – Impulse response database of important portuguese spaces”.