Judit Angster

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Judit Angster is a Hungarian physicist specializing in the acoustics of musical organs. She heads a research group in musical acoustics and photoacoustics at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics in Stuttgart, Germany, part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. [1]

Angster was born in Hungary, the great-granddaughter of Hungarian-German organ builder József Angster. [2] She has a 1991 doctorate (Candidate of Sciences) through the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, [3] and has worked for the Fraunhofer Institute since 1992. She also taught organ-building at the Oscar-Walcker-Schule Ludwigsburg, a German federal college for organ-building in Ludwigsburg, from 1994 to 2003, and has lectured at several other German universities. [4]

Angster was elected as a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2013, "for contributions to the acoustics of the pipe organ". [5]

References

  1. "Judit Angster", 175 inspirierende (in German), German Physical Society, retrieved 2025-11-28
  2. Dr. Judit Angster from Fraunhofer IBP Visits IACAS, Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 11 July 2011, retrieved 2025-11-28
  3. "Angster Judit", Az MTA köztestületének tagjai (in Hungarian), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2025-11-28
  4. Author biography from Ruffatti, Francesco; Angster, Judit (January 2010), "Organbuilders and research: Two points of view" (PDF), The Diapason, pp. 24–27, retrieved 2025-11-28
  5. Fellows of the Society, Acoustical Society of America, retrieved 2025-11-28