Lothar Cremer Prize awarded to Volker Hohmann

In March, the awards for hearing research in Oldenburg are coming thick and fast: five days after Dr Jesko Verhey was honoured by the German Society for Audiology, the German Society for Acoustics (DEGA) awarded its prestigious Lothar Cremer Prize, i.e. the most important prize for young scientists in the field of acoustics, to Privatdozent Dr Volker Hohmann.
Hohmann is deputy head of the Department of Medical Physics at the University of Oldenburg as well as head of research and development at the Hörzentrum Oldenburg and the HörTech Center of Competence. The award recognises his outstanding aptitude for research and teaching, which he demonstrated in particular with his habilitation thesis on "Model-based signal processing for hearing aids". "With Volker Hohmann, the DEGA honours an extremely versatile hearing researcher who knows how to combine basic research and modelling of psychoacoustics with speech processing in hearing aids and other modern speech processing systems just as skilfully as with the audiological measurement methods "made in Oldenburg"," the laudation reads.