DAU - Politecnico di Bari
via Orabona 4
70125 Bari (Italy)

Francesco Martellotta was born in Gioia del Colle (Bari) in 1972. In 1998 he has received his degree (with honors) in Building Engineering at the Politecnico di Bari, discussing a thesis on the "Architectural and acoustical design of a concert-hall in Bari". In 2001 he has obtained his PhD degree in Applied Physics at the University of Ancona discussing a thesis on the "Acoustics characteristics of Apulian Romanesque churches". Since november 2002 he is an assistant professor in "Environmental Applied Physics" at the 1st Faculty of Engineering of the Politecnico di Bari.
His main research interests include church and room acoustics, acoustic measurements, virtual acoustics, psychoacoustics, noise effects in working activities, and thermo-hygrometric comfort. He is currently involved in the National Interest Research Program "The acoustics of worship places" directed by Prof. Ettore Cirillo. He is author of several scientific papers published on national and international journals, congress presentations (some of them invited), and in 2006 he published with Prof. Ettore Cirillo the book "Worship, acoustics, and architecture", summarizing five years of researches on church acoustics.
The "Osservatore Romano", "Wired", and "Panorama" dedicated reports to his work on church acoustics. In 2001 he received the "Best Paper Award" for the best paper authored by a young researcher in the HVAC field at Clima 2000, Naples (15-18 september). In 2007 he was invited as keynote lecturer at the International Symposium on Room Acoustics (satellite symposium of the 19th ICA) in Seville.
He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America and of the Audio Engineering Society.

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