Obituary Dr Paul Fox (1966-2015): well-liked acoustician and signal processor who won admiration across Europe

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Dr Paul Fox, who passed away shortly before his 49th birthday, was an extremely well liked acoustician and signal processor who worked at several key institutions across Europe, writes Tim Leighton. He was born on 11 May 1966. After schooling at Oakmeeds School, Burgess Hill, then Haywards Heath Sixth Form College, he was awarded a BA Hons and an MA (both in engineering science) at the University of Oxford in 1987 and 1995 respectively. He then moved to the University of Reading and in 1995 was awarded a PhD in cybernetics with the thesis title A state space approach to multivariable deconvolution. Sponsored by a Marie Curie award from the EU, he carried out research into limited diffraction beams for medical ultrasound at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway (1998-2000). An accomplished linguist, he used his French, Spanish, Italian, German and English to work at the Technical University of Denmark, the University of Toledo, the University of Warwick and the University of Sydney.