Looking back at Forum Acusticum 2026, the European Acoustics Association recognised the recipients of the EAA Best Student Paper Awards and of the EAA Travel Grants. Our congratulations to all of them.
EAA Best Student Paper Awards
Six EAA Best Student Paper Awards, each carrying a prize of 1000 euros, were presented at the closing ceremony of Forum Acusticum 2026. The awards are funded by the HEAD-Genuit-Stiftung, and go to the first author of the paper named below.
| Recipient | Paper |
|---|---|
| Josephine Pockelé | Quantification of Modelled Wind Turbine Noise Ground Reflections |
| Victor Zheleznov | Explicit and Stable Pseudospectral Time-Domain Method for the Föppl–von Kármán Equations |
| Thomas Deppisch | Direction-Preserving MIMO Speech Enhancement Using a Neural Covariance Estimator |
| Likun Luo | A Robust Adaptive Wavenumber Sampling Approach For Efficient 2.5D Acoustic Simulations |
| Jonas Schmid | In Situ Characterization of Non-Planar Sound Absorbers Using Physics-Informed Neural Operators |
| Maryam Bajool | Spatial Auditory Attention Decoding Using Gammatone-Based Representations Under Clean and Binaural Conditions |
EAA Travel Grants
The EAA Travel Grants provide financial support to early-career acousticians so that they can attend and take part in Forum Acusticum. Fifteen grants, each consisting of 500 euros and free registration, were awarded for Forum Acusticum 2026.
- Tianjing Feng
- Emilia Żak-Stefanowska
- Max Væhrens
- Francesco Veronesi
- Gamze Cengiz
- Robin Mafféïs
- Sofie Becuwe
- Ching-Jo Hsu
- Augusto Fantinelli
- Jesús Vaquerizo-Serrano
- Ekaterina Kostyleva
- Saba Dalirnaghadeh
- Sam Dickinson
- Conor Byrne
- Pasupathan Chithra Barani
Our congratulations to all recipients on this achievement, and our thanks to the HEAD-Genuit-Stiftung for its continued support of the EAA Best Student Paper Awards.
Calls for applications (closed)
The calls below closed on 3 May 2026 (travel grants) and 15 June 2026 (best student paper award). They are kept here for reference.
Best Student Paper Award — call for applications
The Best Student Paper Award, funded by the HEAD-Genuit Foundation, will grant 1000 euros to each of six winners.
To be eligible for these awards you must be a young acoustician who has been enrolled in a University for a Bachelor, Master or PhD and is less than 35 years of age on the 31st of December 2026. You also must be the first author of a paper to be presented in Forum Acusticum 2026 in person.
The winners will be announced at the conference’s closing ceremony, and their names will appear in the EAA Newsletter and other online formats as appropriate.
If you meet the necessary conditions, submit your application.
Submissions will be accepted until the 15th of June 2026.
How to apply:
- Submit your contribution for Forum Acusticum 2026.
- Record the reference given to you upon submission of your contribution.
- Download and complete the Best Student Paper Award Application Form here.
- This is a highly competitive process for a limited number of awards; ensure you provide all the information requested on the form.
- Include a one-page professional biography of yourself.
- Include a copy of your abstract submission.
- Include a copy of some photo identity (e.g. driving license, passport)
- Combine all the above into one single PDF file and name it FA2026_BSPA_YourLastName
- Email it to eaa.generalsecretary@euracoustics.org and eaa@euracoustics.org with the subject line FA2026 BSPA Application.
EAA Travel Grants
The travel grants, consisting of 500 euros and free registration, will be awarded to 15 winners.
To be eligible for the travel grants you must meet the following conditions:
- Be a young researcher/student enrolled on a university course (Bachelor, Master, PhD) or already have a Master or PhD degree.
- Be no more than 30 years old on the 31st of December 2026.
- Be an author in a paper that will be presented in Forum Acusticum 2026 (it is not compulsory to be the first author);
- Be a citizen of, or working in, a country whose National Acoustic Society is a member of the EAA;
- Be a member of the country’s National Society (valued but not mandatory).
If you meet the necessary conditions, submit your application.
Submissions will be accepted until the 3rd of May 2026.
How to apply:
- Submit your contribution for Forum Acusticum 2026.
- Record the reference given to you upon submission of your contribution.
- Download and complete the Travel Grants Application Form here.
- This is a highly competitive process for a limited number of grants; ensure you provide all the information requested on the form.
- Include a one-page professional biography of yourself.
- Include a copy of your abstract submission.
- Include a copy of some photo identity (e.g. driving license, passport).
- Include a supporting statement/recommendation from your supervisor.
- Combine all the above into one single PDF file and name it FA2026_TG_YourLastName
- Email it to eaa.generalsecretary@euracoustics.org and eaa@euracoustics.org with the subject line FA2026 TG Application.