At the eleventh annual conference of the German Society of Audiology in Kiel, Oldenburg hearing researcher Jesko Verhey was honoured with the Meyer zu Gottesberge Prize. This is the first time an Oldenburg scientist has received the highest honour that the German Society of Audiology can bestow on an active researcher at the height of his creative powers. In his laudatory speech, his former doctoral supervisor, Prof. Birger Kollmeier, emphasised Verhey's special achievements in modelling the hearing process in normal and hearing-impaired people. The Oldenburg hearing researcher also shaped the field of "Comodulation Masking Release" with his work, i.e. the broadband detection advantage through similar (co-)modulations of the interference signal in neighbouring frequency bands. Prof. Verhey is a sub-project leader in the Collaborative Research Centre "Active Hearing", a board member of the Centre for Neurosensory Science and a founding member of the Centre for Hearing Research at the Universities of Oldenburg and Hanover. Prof Dr rer nat Jesko L Verhey was born in Hanover in 1969. He completed his degree in physics at the University of Göttingen in 1994. He then moved to the University of Oldenburg as a scholarship holder of the "Psychoacoustics" research training group. Here he completed his doctorate in 1998 under Prof Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier. From 1998 to 2000, Verhey conducted research as a postdoc in the Medical Physics Department at the University of Oldenburg. From 2000 to the end of 2002, he was a research assistant at the "Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing" at the University of Cambridge (UK), where he worked in the laboratory of Dr I. M. Winter. He has been a junior professor at the University of Oldenburg since 2003. In July 2007 he habilitated in physics.