Svante Finnveden graduated in Applied Mechanics from KTH. He had then already worked some time for the acoustic consultant company IFM- Akustikbyrån, where during six years he made investigation for governmental research agencies and contributed to R&D project for most, if not all, of the big Swedish mechanical and vehicle industries. In 1989, Svante started his studies towards a PhD, which finally was awarded by the Department of Technical Acoustics, KTH, in 1995. He was a Research Fellow of the ISVR working on fluid-filled pipes for three years and then he got his current position as an Associate Professor at the Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory for Sound and Vibration Research, KTH, in 1998.

Svante’s research concerns vibro-acoustic modelling in general and numerical prediction of wave motion in built up structures with uncertain properties in particular. These efforts have lately been focused on vibrations of car tyres, turbulence response of aircraft, sound transmission in layered structures and the modelling of a flat loud speaker, involving far too complicated porous material theory. Svante endures a strong relation to SEA since 1984.