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Maarten Hornikx is a Full Professor Building Acoustics, Vice-Dean of the Department of the Built Environment, and he leads the Building Acoustics Chair of Unit Building Physics and Services (BPS). Maarten Hornikx specializes in computational modeling of sound propagation in the built environment, with research spanning both methodological advances and applied acoustics.

His work focuses on two major application areas: the development of sound reproduction techniques, enabling immersive acoustic simulations for built‑environment design, and the use of numerical models to study environmental and architectural acoustics, including how vegetation, indoor and outdoor geometries and materials, and meteorological conditions influence sound propagation.

Besides, he is an advocate of open research software, actively promoting transparent and shareable computational tools to increase scientific impact and improve scientific standards.

Maarten Hornikx obtained his MSc in Architecture, Building and Planning with a graduation project in Building Acoustics in 2004, followed by a PhD in Applied Acoustics from Chalmers University of Technology in 2009. He received a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship to conduct postdoctoral research at KU Leuven from 2009 to 2011, after which he worked as a part-time senior researcher at Chalmers between 2011 and 2013. Hornikx joined Eindhoven University of Technology in 2012 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 2019. In the same year he returned to ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø, he was awarded a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant. At ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø, he leads the Building Acoustics research group and coordinated the coherent course series Science of Sound and Music from 2013 to 2025. He has also coordinated the H2020-ITN project Acoutect. Since 2019, Hornikx has served as vice-dean of the Department of the Built Environment and acted as the scientific director of the 4TU.Built Environment Center during 2020–2021. Internationally, he has chaired the Computational Acoustics Technical Committee of the European Acoustics Association and is an Associate Editor of Acta Acustica. In 2022, he was appointed one of the first eScience Center Fellows. Hornikx has undertaken research sabbaticals at Aalto University and Stockholm University in 2018, and at Politecnico di Torino in 2022. In addition, he plays an active role in the Autumn School Series in Acoustics (ASSA) as an organiser of the training schools hosted in Eindhoven since 2022.