Cochlear implants-signal and bio-engineering that changes people’s lives Seminar
- Time:
- 16:00
- Date:
- 15 October 2019
- Venue:
- Building 13 / Room 3017
Event details
Cochlear implantation is the only effective treatment for severe to profound deafness and over 600,000 people world-wide benefit from this life-transforming technology. The development of this technology has been achieved by successfully combining developments in audio engineering and signal processing with advances in biomedical and bioengineering, and basic science. I will provide an overview of what cochlear implants are, how and why they work to enable deaf individuals to access the world of sound, and provide an overview of the current engineering challenges that will lead to future improvements in the technology.
Carl Verschuur is Director of the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service (USAIS), an enterprise unit within Engineering and Physical Sciences. USAIS provides specialised clinical services to people from around the South of England who need a cochlear implant, other types of surgical hearing prostheses, or specialist services in Auditory Processing Disorder and other specialised forms of hearing assessment.
Visit the USAIS for more details of the service. Prior to his current position, he has held clinical scientist, clinical management and academic roles in the area of audiology in Southampton and Liverpool and was most recently Programmes Director for Audiology programmes in the University of Southampton. He initially graduated with a first class honours degree in Linguistics from University College London in 1989, from which he developed a career-long interest in acoustic and clinical phonetics. He graduated with an MSc in Audiology in 1992 and a PhD in 2007, both from the University of Southampton.