Our long-standing colleague, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Scheuren, has been awarded this year’s Helmholtz Medal of the German Acoustic Society (DEGA). Each year, outstanding achievements in the field of acoustics are honored with this medal. As stated on the certificate, Joachim Scheuren receives this award "for his outstanding achievements in the field of technical noise control and his extraordinary commitment in the field of acoustics both in a national and international context".

After obtaining his doctorate and habilitation at the Institute for Technical Acoustics of the Technical University of Berlin and having carried out research activities at the Heinrich Hertz Institute for Telecommunications in Berlin, Joachim Scheuren has been working as an acoustic consulting engineer for Müller-BBM GmbH since 1986. Here, his work was especially focussed on supporting and expanding the fields of active sound and vibration control and the broad field of vehicle acoustics. As managing director of the Müller-BBM GmbH (1995 – 2006) and the Müller-BBM VibroAkustik Systeme GmbH (1996 – 2004) as well as director of the Holding Müller-BBM VuB GmbH (2006 – 2009) he has contributed substantially to the continuous development and expansion of our fields of activities and group of companies. Furthermore, his appointment as adjunct professor at the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg has enabled him to build a bridge between scientific research and applied technology.

Now retired, Joachim Scheuren is still busy with engineering activities as a freelancer for Müller-BBM.

Besides, he has dedicated himself to the national and international development of the field of acoustics and its social standing by means of comprehensive voluntary activities. Two times he was president of the German Acoustic Society (DEGA) (1998 – 2001 and 2007 – 2010), he was member of its board of directors for thirteen years, he was member, founder and head of several specialist groups and committees both in Germany and abroad, he organised and led national and international conferences on acoustics and finally (since 2013) has been president of the International Institute of Noise Control Engi-neering, I-INCE.

It is this wide range of commitment that brings the board of directors of the German Acoustic Society to conclude: "With Joachim Scheuren, we are honoring a multitalented, committed and communicative acoustician who has made a major contribution to strengthen engineering acoustics and national and international networking with his technical work as well as with his responsibility and vision."

(from the programme book of the 42th Annual Conference on Acoustics, DAGA 2016, pages 40/21, http://www.daga2016.de/fileadmin/uploads/2016.daga-tagung.de/Programm/DAGA16_Programm_online.pdf).