The International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise - An Overview

Speaker: Mathias Basner, MD, PhD, MScEpi
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Job Title: Professor of Psychiatry

ICBEN is the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise. Its goal is to promote a high level of scientific research concerning all aspects of noise-induced effects on humans (both auditory and non-auditory). ICBEN is an affiliate member of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA).
This talk will introduce the history, structure, and past accomplishments of ICBEN.

• Learning Objective 1: After this course, participants will be able to describe the structure and goals of the International Commission of Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN).
• Learning Objective 2: After this course, participants will be able to describe the different International Noise Teams of ICBEN, and what they are focusing on.
• Learning Objective 3: After this course, participants will be able to describe past accomplishments of ICBEN.

About Mathias 

Mathias Basner, MD, PhD, MSc is Professor and Director of the Behavioral Regulation and Health Section in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Basner received his degree in Medicine and his Ph.D. in Research from the University of Bochum, Germany, and his Master of Science in Epidemiology degree from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Dr. Basner trained at the Institute for Applied Physiology at the University of Bochum and worked as a Research Associate at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Aerospace Medicine from 1999 until 2009, where he headed the Flight Physiology Division in 2008 and 2009. In January 2010, Dr. Basner was recruited to the University of Pennsylvania to assume the position of Assistant Professor of Sleep and Chronobiology in Psychiatry. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2015 and to full Professor in 2020. Dr. Basner's primary research interests concern the effects of traffic noise on sleep and health, the effects of sleep loss on neurobehavioral functions, population studies on sleep time and waking activities, and the effects of long-duration space missions on astronaut behavioral health. Dr. Basner conducted several large scale laboratory and field studies on the effects of traffic noise on sleep since 1999. For this research, Dr. Basner was awarded the Science Award of the German Aerospace Center in 2007 and the Science Award of the German Academy for Aviation and Travel Medicine in 2010. Dr. Basner is Past President of the International Commission of Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN). He is advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) concerning traffic noise effects on sleep, and member of the Impacts and Science Group (ISG) of the Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Dr. Basner is a member of the Sleep Research Society (SRS) and of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). Dr. Basner published 135 peer-reviewed articles and reviews. He is Senior Associate Editor of the journal Sleep Health and an editorial board member of the journal Frontiers in Physiology. He has reviewed articles for >100 scientific journals.

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