Michael Ainslie received a BSc in Physics from Imperial College, London, UK in 1981, MSc in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2011, and PhD in Ocean Acoustics from the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, UK in 1992. He is Visiting Professor at ISVR’s Centre for Ultrasonics and Underwater Acoustics and was awarded the 1998 A. B. Wood medal by the UK Institute of Acoustics.