Seminari Prof Volker Hohmann

Next Wednesday the 6th of May by 14:00 Prof. Volker Hohmann, from Oldenburg University, Germany will give a research seminar entitled "Multi-modal hearing devices and their evaluation: Application of interactive virtual environments to hearing-aid research"

Short Bio: Volker Hohmann received the Physics degree (Dipl.-Phys.) and the doctorate degree in Physics (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Göttingen, Germany, in 1989 and 1993. From 1993-2012 he was a faculty member of the Physics Institute, Oldenburg University, Germany, and was appointed full professor at the Faculty for Medicine and Health Sciences at Oldenburg University in 2012. His research expertise is in  acoustics and digital signal processing with applications to signal processing in speech processing devices, e.g., hearing aids. He is a consultant with the Hörzentrum Oldenburg  GmbH. He was a Guest Researcher at Boston University, Boston, MA, (Prof. Dr. Colburn) in 2000 and at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain in 2008. Prof. Hohmann received the Lothar-Cremer price of the German acoustical society (DEGA) in 2008 and the German President’s Award for Technology and Innovation in 2012.