Another ExpORL member has successfully obtained a doctoral degree. During his Phd, Sam Denys developed, implemented and validated a hearing screening protocol based on speech perception in noise, which is now systematically used to screen the hearing of school-aged children in Belgium. Impressive work with lasting impact, congratulations!
Congratulations to Lien Decruy for obtaining her PhD! Her dissertation was titled: "Neural tracking of the speech envelope: unraveling the effects of listening effort, age and hearing impairment." We would like to thank the jury members for their contributions: Prof. Verhaert and prof. McLaughlin of KU Leuven, prof. Anderson of University of Maryland and Dr. Millman from The University of Manchester. After an impressive defense, we celebrated with a nice reception and a beautiful performance of our own ExpORL band.
