Musician, producer, recording engineer and scholar of acoustic physics from Cheshire (UK). After finishing a PhD in Applied Physics and Electronics at Durham University in 1973 he was invited by the University of Leuven to start a new research activity in shape-memory alloy ultrasonics. In 1976 he became the chief engineer at Hifi-Home Studio in Bruges. He established Sound Stuff – a study bureau in acoustics and music recording facility – in 1979, and worked as an independent in recording-studio design and recorded-music production until he joined the Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO) of the VUB in 1983.