Josep Llorca-Bofí is an architect and doctor in architectural acoustics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), in 2015 and 2018, respectively, where he was assistant professor teaching architectural visual simulation. He is currently a Junior Principal Investigator at the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics (IHTA) at RWTH Aachen University. Since 2021, he leads the ‘Person-focused Analysis of Architectural Design’ research group, studying the architectural design, with a focus on people’s perceptions, especially in situational contexts where sound matters, by means of audio-visual simulations and sensory profiling approaches.