Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI
website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Dr. Andy J. Beynon
Dr. Andy J. Beynon
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Section Board Member
ENT - Hearing & Implants - Vestibular & Auditory Evoked Potential Lab, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Interests: deafness; hearing loss; audiometry; auditory perception; ABR; auditory processing; audiology; hearing disorders; auditory evoked potentials; auditory neuroscience
Prof. Dr. Luca Bruschini
Prof. Dr. Luca Bruschini
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Section Board Member
Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular Pathology and Emergency Medicine, University of Pisa, via Savi 10, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Interests: middle ear implant; cochlear implant; middle ear surgery
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Prof. Dr. Per Caye-Thomasen
Prof. Dr. Per Caye-Thomasen
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Section Board Member
Copenhagen Hearing and Balance Center, Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) and Audiology Clinic, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: hearing rehabilitation; cochlear implantation; outcome studies
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Dr. Jeffrey Tao Cheng
Dr. Jeffrey Tao Cheng
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Section Board Member
1. Eaton-Peabody Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA 02114, USA
2. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Interests: middle ear mechanics; ear tissue biomechanics; ear damage and reconstruction
Dr. Andrea Ciorba
Dr. Andrea Ciorba
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Section Board Member
Clinic of Audiology & ENT, Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University Hospital of Ferrara, 44121 Ferrara, Italy
Interests: audiology; hearing loss; vertigo; tinnitus; hearing aids; cochlear implants
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Dr. Francesco Comacchio
Dr. Francesco Comacchio
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Section Board Member
Regional Vertigo Center, ENT Unit, Neuroscience Department, University Hospital Padova, Veneto, Italy
Interests: otoneurology; otosurgery; audiology
Dr. Domenico Cuda
Dr. Domenico Cuda
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Section Board Member
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, “Guglielmo da Saliceto” Hospital, Via Cantone Del Cristo 40, 29121 Piacenza, Italy
Interests: cochlear implants
Dr. Ignacio del Castillo
Dr. Ignacio del Castillo
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Section Board Member
1. Servicio de Genética, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain
2. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Madrid, Spain
Interests: inherited hearing impairment; gene identification; spectra of mutations; mechanisms of pathogenesis; auditory phenotypes; physiology of the inner ear; mouse models; gene therapy
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Prof. Dr. Norbert Dillier
Prof. Dr. Norbert Dillier
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Section Board Member
Laboratory of Experimental Audiology, ENT Department, University Hospital and University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Interests: audiology and otology; hearing and acoustics; auditory nerve physiology; speech analysis, synthesis, and processing; biomedical engineering; medical informatics; multimedia
Prof. Dr. Katsumi Doi
Prof. Dr. Katsumi Doi
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Section Board Member
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Osaka 577-8502, Japan
Interests: inner ear; hearing loss; cochlea; Meniere’s disease
Dr. Jeremy J. Donai
Dr. Jeremy J. Donai
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Section Board Member
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, Lubbock, TX 78430, USA
Interests: audiology; hearing disorders; ear
Prof. Dr. Adrien Eshraghi
Prof. Dr. Adrien Eshraghi
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Section Board Member
Department of Otolaryngology, Neurological Surgery Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
Interests: cochlear implant; hearing preservation; otoprotection; inner ear therapy; stapedectomy
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Prof. Dr. Salvatore Ferlito
Prof. Dr. Salvatore Ferlito
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Section Board Member
Unit of ENT, Department of Surgical Medical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, School of Medicine, University of Catania, 95124 Catania, Italy
Interests: ENT; otology; dysphagia
Dr. Christian Fullgrabe
Dr. Christian Fullgrabe
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Section Board Member
Ear Institute, University College London, London WC1X 8EE, UK
Interests: auditory temporal processing; speech perception; listening effort; age-related hearing loss; aging; cognition; audiology; psychoacoustics
Prof. Dr. Wiktor Jedrzejczak
Prof. Dr. Wiktor Jedrzejczak
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Section Board Member
Department of Experimental Audiology, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, 02-042 Warsaw, Poland
World Hearing Center, 05-830 Kajetany, Poland
Interests: signal processing; otoacoustic emissions; auditory evoked potentials; auditory neuroscience; hearing loss; cochlear implants
Prof. Dr. Måns Magnusson
Prof. Dr. Måns Magnusson
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Section Board Member
Department of Oto‐Rhino‐Laryngology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Interests: rehabilitation; posture; motor learning; audiology; otology; otolaryngology; neck pain
Prof. Dr. Vinaya Manchaiah
Prof. Dr. Vinaya Manchaiah
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Section Board Member
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Interests: audiological rehabilitation; big-data research; biopsychosocial (ICF) model; clinical trials (RCTs); consumer health informatics (CHI); cross-cultural research; digital health; direct-to-consumer healthcare; health communication; health literacy; internet health information; natural language processing (NLP); outcome measures; patient-centeredness; patient journey; psychosocial aspects of hearing loss; recreational noise induced hearing loss (RNIHL); systematic review and meta-analysis; tele-audiology; telerehablitation; theory of social representations (TSR); tinnitus
Prof. Dr. Patrizia Mancini
Prof. Dr. Patrizia Mancini
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Section Board Member
Departments of Sensory Organs, University Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Interests: cochlear and auditory implants; hearing loss rehabilitation; facial nerve paralysis
Dr. Antonino Maniaci
Dr. Antonino Maniaci
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Section Board Member
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF Ingrassia” ENT Section, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: ENT; otology; hearing loss; artificial intelligence; machine learning; dysphagia; voice disorders; vocal rehabilitation
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Prof. Dr. Alessandro Martini
Prof. Dr. Alessandro Martini
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Section Board Member
Department of Neurosciences (DNS), Otolaryngology Section, Padova University, Padova, Italy
Interests: hearing disorders; otology; cochlear implants; audiology; genetics
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Prof. Dr. Hartmut Meister
Prof. Dr. Hartmut Meister
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Section Board Member
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Kerpenerstraße 62, D-50937 Cologne, Germany
Interests: speech recognition; prosody perception; multimodal perception; listening effort; cognition; cochlear implants; hearing aids
Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Merchán
Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Merchán
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Section Board Member
Institute for Neuroscience of Castilla y Leon, Lab.4 – Auditory Neuroplasticity, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Interests: pathophysiology of deafness; auditory neuroscience; auditory brain plasticity; cortex cross-modal reorganization; electrical stimulation of auditory system; ABRs; immunocytochemistry; early gene activity markers (c Fos, Arc, etc); neurotransmitters; post synaptic receptors; cortical evoked potentials; molecular biology
Dr. Rahul Mittal
Dr. Rahul Mittal
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Section Board Member
1. Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
2. Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
Interests: immunology; immune dysregulation; inflammation; autoimmune disorders; type 1 diabetes; dysglycemia; Proteomics (iTRAQ); cochlear injury; auditory research; hearing research
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Dr. Deborah Moncrieff
Dr. Deborah Moncrieff
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Section Board Member
School of Communication Science and Disorders, University of Memphis, 4055 N. Park Loop, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
Interests: auditory processing; neural plasticity; training; dichotic listening; children; binaural listening; psychoacoustics
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Prof. Dr. Vinay Swarnalatha Nagaraj
Prof. Dr. Vinay Swarnalatha Nagaraj
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Section Board Member
University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Interests: Psychoacoustics; electrophysiology; amplification; cochlear dead regions; consequences of hearing loss; audiovisual speech perception; ICF for hearing loss
Prof. Dr. Seiji Nakagawa
Prof. Dr. Seiji Nakagawa
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Section Board Member
Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
Interests: hearing aids; audiology; auditory processing; auditory neuroscience; psychoacoustics; tinnitus
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Dr. Kaibao Nie
Dr. Kaibao Nie
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Section Board Member
1. Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Bothell, WA 98011, USA
2. Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Interests: cochlear implants; hearing aids; vestibular implants; psychoacoustics; speech perception; speech signal processing
Dr. Tadashi Nishimura
Dr. Tadashi Nishimura
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Section Board Member
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Nara Medical University, Nara 634-8521, Japan
Interests: otology; neurotology; audiology; hearing aid; hearing; implantation; bone conduction, cartilage conduction
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Dr. Arnaud Jean Noreña
Dr. Arnaud Jean Noreña
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Section Board Member
Laboratoire Neurosciences Intégratives et Adaptatives, UMR CNRS 7260, Fédération 3C, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
Interests: audiology; auditory perception; auditory neuroscience; tinnitus; hyperacusis; misophonia
Prof. Dr. Kedar N. Prasad
Prof. Dr. Kedar N. Prasad
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Section Board Member
Engage Global, 245 El-Faisan Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903, USA
Interests: hearing disorders; micronutrients; neurodegenerative diseases; oxidative stress; inflammation