Evan Davis joined the Catgut Acoustical Society in 1976, earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from the U. of Washington with his work on the structural acoustics design of guitar soundboards in 1990. He has been a faculty member of the VSA’s Oberlin Violin acoustics workshop since 2006, and is currently employed as a Technical Fellow of the Boeing Company, directing research in structural acoustics, noise control, and sound quality engineering.

▪ bio current as of 2011