Oldenburg. Prof. Dr Volker Hohmann, previously an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Physics at the University of Oldenburg, has been appointed to the professorship for Psychoacoustics. Hohmann, a hearing researcher in the ‘Hearing4all’ cluster of excellence, received the 2012 German Future Prize in November, jointly with the Oldenburg-based physicist and physician Prof. Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier and Dr Torsten Niederdränk (Siemens AG).

Hohmann studied physics in Göttingen, where he also obtained his doctorate. He has been working at the Institute of Physics at the University of Oldenburg since 1993. He completed his habilitation there in 2007. For his habilitation thesis, he received the Lothar Cremer Prize from the German Acoustical Society (DEGA), the most prestigious award for early-career researchers in the field of acoustics.

Hohmann is one of the founders of the Oldenburg Hearing Centre. He is Deputy Head of the Department of Medical Physics at the university and Head of Research and Development at the HörTech Center of Competence. Research stays have taken Hohmann to Boston University (USA) and the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona (Spain). The scientist’s research focus is on models of signal processing in the auditory system, in particular binaural (two-ear) hearing, and their application in the field of signal processing for hearing aids.

[University press release dated 16 January 2013]