Tyndall Medal 2023 to Joshua W R Meggitt

Josh Meggitt is an early career acoustician with a number of notable achievements to his name in the short time since completing his PhD.

JWR Meggitt is author or co-author of seventeen original scientific papers in high ranking acoustics journals, as well as a steady stream of conference publications. Remarkably, for such an early career stage, he is lead or sole author on the majority of these papers. A series of 5 papers dealing with uncertainty in the related areas of blocked forces measurement and sub-structuring provides a rigorous and comprehensive treatment of this whole subject not seen before in the literature. Two papers from this series are cited in an international standard indicating the relevance and timeliness of Josh's work. A number of other novel and industrially relevant contributions are evident from Josh's papers spanning the fields of acoustics, structural dynamics and virtual acoustic prototyping. These include the first integration of experimental blocked force data into advanced numerical models allowing us to 'switch on' realistic virtual machines. Josh's papers evidence collaboration with world leading partners, including Cambridge University, Bosch, Boeing, Dyson and Bentley and he was part of the team presenting a keynote address at the Internoise 22 congress, one of the largest global gatherings of acousticians of recent years.

In his brief career Josh has also provided enthusiastic service to the acoustics community: he is a popular teacher of acoustics, at the University of Salford, helping to train well qualified acousticians of the future; he is a committee member on the IoA Noise and Vibration Engineering Group and co-lead of the UKAN special interest group in Vibro-Acoustics; he is also a reviewer for a number of high ranking journals, highly-skilled work that often goes unrecognised due to confidentiality.

The IOA is proud to award the Tyndall Medal to Dr. Joshua Meggitt a young acoustician of truly global standing and potential.