Jeffrey. A. Simmen received the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1984.
After receiving his doctoral degree, he then worked the following five years in the areas of underwater acoustics, search theory, and operations research at the Center for Naval Analysis (which included a two-year assignment at the USN submarine command in Italy). In 1989, he returned to academia where for the next few years he conducted research in fluid dynamics and ocean acoustics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and the University of California at Santa Cruz, respectively. Since 1995, he has managed a basic and applied research program in ocean acoustics for the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Arlington, VA; at ONR, he has established special programs in high-frequency acoustics, shallow-water acoustics, and long-range propagation. He continues to be an active researcher, investigating the propagation of sound through ocean internal waves and analyzing high-frequency acoustic fluctuations in shallow water. (The latter study began while he and Dr. Mohsen Badiey were both at ONR.) He is an Assistant Editor for the Journal of Underwater Acoustics.
Dr. Simmen is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society.