Pınar Ertürk has been awarded Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher Grant. She was invited by Emerging Auditory Research Lab led by Dr. Julie Arenberg at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, for one academic year research visit starting from 8th Feb 2021.

Dr. Arenberg’s research focuses on improving speech perception abilities and listening experience of  hearing impaired pediatrics and adults by using a translational approach. Pınar will be working as a visiting researcher of Dr. Arenberg’s Lab on the purpose of conducting her Phd thesis research about speech on speech perception of hearing impaired individuals.

Our BME master’s student, Luke Meyer, has received a a PhD Fellowship from GSMS Kolffs Insitute. He will continue his work with Sam the Robot as a PhD, supervised by Deniz and Laura.
Congratulations Luke!

The full article is here: link.

Jefta Saija successfully defended his thesis “Temporal integration and healthy ageing” on 14 October 2019, 14:30, at Academy Building, RUG.

We were lucky to have two new researchers, Thomas Koelewijn and Laura Rachman, who joined us for the VICI project. After earlier work on audiovisual perception and attention, Thomas has been very productive in listening effort in normal and impaired hearing, especially in utilizing pupillometry. Laura joined us with her expertise on processing of vocal emotion cues, and the computer transformation of these cues as a research tool.

Welcome Thomas and Laura to db SPL Lab!

Leanne Nagels’s paper (co-authors Petra Hendriks, Etienne Gaudrain, and Debi Vickers) is chosen as one of the best student/early-career researcher papers at VIHAR 2019! Congratulations Leanne!