Tobias Busch obtained his PhD degree. Congratulations!

Tobias Busch obtained his PhD degree. Congratulations!

We would like to congratulate Tobias busch for successfully defending his PhD. His project titled 'Using data logs to capture the auditory environment of children with cochlear implants', was part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions ITN 'iCare' and has been a collaboration between Cochlear Europe, Middle East & Africa and Exp ORL - KU Leuven. 

It was a special honor to have prof. Karen Gordon from Toronto, dr. Tobias Piechowiak from ReSound, and prof. Hannah Keppler from Universiteit Gent attend the defense as external jury members. 

Tobias would like to thank everyone who attended and helped to make this a really fantastic evening!

ExpORL @ fTales 2019

ExpORL @ fTales 2019

Earlier this week several members of Exp ORL - KU Leuven attended the workshop "Neuro-Sense and Sense-Ability" organized by f-Tales (Flanders Training Network Life Sciences). During the workshop a wide variety of topics were covered: from novel neuro-imaging technologies and signal processing to the exciting future of brain-computer interfaces and many more.

Boateng Asamoah and Ben Somers gave flash talks and presented a poster about their research.

Posters were presented by Simon Geirnaert, Servaas Vandecappelle, Neetha Das, Anastasiya Starovoyt, Ahmad Khatoun, and Eline Verschueren.

Other lab members who attended were Jana Peeters, Marlies Gillis, Jill Kries, Wouter David, Toivo Glatz, Lauren Blockmans, Maria Economou, Guy Fierens, Shauni van Herck, Lien Decruy, Jana van Canneyt and Myles Mc Laughlin.

Second prize in Falling Walls Leuven to Ben Somers

Ben Somers from ExpORL takes second prize at Falling Walls Leuven

On 27 March, 14 researchers participated in Falling Walls Leuven, organised by Doe mij maar wetenschap and presented their innovative and ground-breaking research in 3 minutes to a jury and audience. The second prize from the jury, as well as the audience award, went to our lab member Ben Somers for his research on hearing rehabilitation. Congratulations, Ben!

Invitation Seminar Prof. Dr. Karen Gordon – 2 April 2019

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Invitation Research Seminar ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences Benefits and challenges of treating unilateral deafness in children Prof. Dr. Karen Gordon The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto When? Tuesday, 2 April 2019, 12:00 pm Where? Seminar room HP 4 (04.230) O&N 2 - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation. Copyright KU Leuven

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Invitation Seminars ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences Guest lectures in the framework of Hearing Instrument Technology Location Seminar room ALO 05.100 ALO-building, Gasthuisberg, Health Sciences Campus Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Programme Cochlear Implant fitting aspects Dr. Bas van Dijk, Cochlear Technology Centre Europe Friday, 15 February 2019, 14h-16h FM-communication and FM-technology Jan De Sutter, Phonak Belgium Friday, 22 February 2019, 14h-16h BAHD: Bone Anchored Hearing Devices: technology and audiology Dr. Arjan Bosman, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre Friday, 1 March 2019, 16h-18h Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation. Copyright KU Leuven

Seminar Boateng Asamoah - 31 January 2019

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Invitation Research Seminar ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences Understanding the dynamics of neural oscillation entrainment using alternating current stimulation. Boateng Asamoah Research Seminar When? Thursday, 31 January 2019, 15:30 Where? Seminar room HP5 (05.204) O&N 2 - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation. Copyright KU Leuven

SPIN work shop 2019

SPin Workshop 2019

Last week, the Speech in Noise (SPIN) Workshop took place at the University of Ghent, Belgium. It was the 11th time this workshop took place and in accordance, 11 members of our lab participated. Eline Verschueren, Sara Magits, Annelies Devesse and Tilde Van Hirtumpresented posters at the workshop. Sam Denys, Benjamin Dieudonné, Marlies Gillis, Lien Decruy, Michael hofmann, Astrid van Wieringen and Tom Francart attended as well.

We are also very happy to announce that the Colin Cherry Award 2019 was given to Sara Magits for her great poster presentation. Well done, Sara!