Rate My Professor Sebastian Oberst

Oberst obtained his PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2011, with the dissertation Analysis of Brake Squeal Noise in the Department of Engineering and Information Technology. His career trajectory includes an adjunct associate professor role at UNSW Canberra School of Engineering and Technology, service on the Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering research committee, and membership in the MME executive team. Notable publications comprise Statistical analysis of brake squeal noise by S. Oberst and J.C.S. Lai (Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2011), Development of coupled FE/BE models to investigate the structural and acoustic responses of a submerged vessel by S. Merz and S. Oberst (International Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2007), Submillimetre mechanistic designs of termite-built structures by S. Oberst et al. (Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2021), Termite Vibration Sensing: The Chordotonal Organs and Their Role in Subterranean Perception (2025), and Recurrence Rate spectrograms for the classification of modulated signals in structural health monitoring by T. Hertrampf and S. Oberst (Physica Scripta, 2024). He co-edited the book Vibration Engineering for a Sustainable Future (2021). Awards include the Australia Award/Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2015). As Chief Investigator, he secured Australian Research Council grants LE180100041, DP200100358, and LE250100091. Oberst's studies on termites' hyper-sensitivity to vibrations contribute to advancements in pest control and robotics. He serves as an Editor at PeerJ.