Rebecca Millman

Rebecca Millman is a Senior Lecturer in the Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, The University of Manchester. She is a hearing scientist who is committed to delivering research and research impact that will improve the lives of people with hearing loss. Her key research outputs have provided fundamental knowledge of how the auditory brain hears and listens when communication is challenging.  Her more applied research has used behaviour change techniques to develop a novel intervention to improve communication for care home residents living with dementia and hearing loss.

Adriana A. Zekveld

Adriana A. Zekveld (PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Section Ear & Hearing, Dept. of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Amsterdam UMC location VU medical center, Amsterdam.

My research line focuses on the effect of hearing loss on speech perception difficulties and listening effort. My recent studies assessed the quantification of listening effort using pupillometry, and the relationship between listening effort and hearing related stress. I aim to assess listening-related effort in conditions that are more ecologically valid than standard speech perception tests. For example, social aspects are taken into account, or ambulatory recordings of hearing-related stress are performed in actual daily-life situations.

I collaborate with academic and industrial partners (hearing aid manufacturers).

Sophia E. Kramer

Sophia E. Kramer, neuropsychologist, is Professor in Auditory Functioning and Participation at the department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Amsterdam UMC, location VU University medical center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Her research focuses on the determinants and consequences of adult hearing impairment and the development of methods to assess these effects. A specific focus of her research is on the assessment of listening effort and daily-life stress using the method of pupillometry. She further focuses on innovations in hearing e-health care.

Michael Richter

Michael Richter is a Reader in Motivation Psychology at the Effort Lab, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University

Eco de Geus

De Geus is an active researcher in the field of biobehavioral medicine. He employs and combination of experimental psychophysiological and genetic epidemiological approaches to elucidate the genetic and environmental determinants of individual differences in  mental and physical health, and how these are moderated by regular exercise behaviour. A recurrent theme in his work is the ambulatory measurement of the physiological stress responses in naturalistic “real life” settings for which he led the development of the well-known Vrije Universiteit Ambulatory Monitoring System (VU-AMS). He has published over 650 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and is currently co-PI of the 10-year Stress-in-Action programme that aims to  increase our scientific understanding of the sources and consequences of daily-life stress.

Dorothea Wendt

Dr. Dorothea Wendt has a background in physics from Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg with a PhD degree in Medical Physics under supervision of Prof. Dr. Dr. Briger Kollmeier and Dr. Thomas Brand. A postdoc position at CHeSS brought her to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Today Dr. Wendt is a principal scientist at Eriksholm Research Centre with a focus on cognitive aspects of hearing and the impact of hearing impairment as well as effects of hearing-aid treatment. Furthermore, she holds an affiliated associate position at DTU where she works closely with the Department of Health Technology.

Hamish Innes-Brown

Dr. Hamish Innes-Brown is a Principal Scientist at Eriksholm Research Centre and adjunct Associate Professor in the Hearing Systems Section of the Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark. He is interested in translational research which helps push scientific knowledge into insights and products which improve the lives of people who suffer from hearing difficulties. His research focuses on cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging with a special interest in functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) and brainstem-level EEG measures generated by natural sounds.

Kevin Verdière

Kevin Verdière is a Product Team Manager at Hinfact. He is responsible for the scientific development, assessment, and validation of an innovative training system for pilots based on psycho-physiological measurements. He earned his Ph.D. in Brain-Computer Interfaces from ISAE-SUPAERO and has a broad background in Biomedical Engineering.

Vsevolod Peysakhovich

Vsevolod Peysakhovich is an Associate Professor of Human Factors at ISAE-SUPAERO and a co-founder and Scientific Adviser of Hinfact. He is an aerospace engineer and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Université de Toulouse. He has co-authored over 70 scientific publications and has supervised a dozen doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.

Xavier Domont

Xavier Domont, who holds a double degree in Electrical Engineering from CentraleSupelec in France and TU Darmstadt in Germany, received his Ph.D. from TU Darmstadt in 2009. His doctoral research, conducted in collaboration with the Honda Research Institute Europe, focused on biologically motivated features for speech recognition.

Dr. Domont joined CeoTronics AG in 2009, initially as a DSP (Digital Signal Processing) software developer. Since 2017, he has been Head of Software Development, where he continues to lead and contribute significantly to the company’s technological innovations.

Kirsten C Wagener

Kirsten C. Wagener is the head of Audiology at Hörzentrum Oldenburg gGmbH, Germany. She has a long-standing and unique experience in the evaluation of commercial and experimental hearing devices, as well in investigating and developing audiological measurement procedures. She received her PhD in physics in 2003 from the University of Oldenburg.

Gabrielle Saunders

Gabrielle (Gaby) Saunders is a Professor of Audiology at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the Director of Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness (ManCAD), and Co-Lead of the Hearing Health Theme of the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research (BRC).

Her research focuses on auditory rehabilitation and is broadly designed to optimize outcomes of hearing-related interventions, including teleaudiology, hearing screening, assistive technology and education, taking advantage of knowledge that can be gained from mobile technology and big data sets. Her research is underpinned by the principles of person-centred care and health behaviour psychology. Her hope is that her research will help towards making clinical care be evidence-based, family-centred and personalized.

Jan Rennies-Hochmuth

Jan Rennies-Hochmuth studied Engineering Physics in Oldenburg, Germany, Lyngby, Denmark, and Munich, Germany, and received his B.Eng. (2006), M.Sc. (2008) and doctoral degree (2013) from the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, for his research on human speech and loudness perception. Since 2011 he is head of the group Personalized Hearing Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, Oldenburg, Germany. His current research focuses on modeling and enhancement of speech perception and listening effort, psychoacoustics, personalized audio, hearing loss compensation, and assistive listening devices.