Oldenburg hearing researcher honoured with "Glocker Medal" for outstanding achievements

Oldenburg. Oldenburg physicist and physician Prof Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier, spokesperson for the Hearing4all cluster of excellence, has received the highest award of the German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP). The board of the society recognised Kollmeier's "outstanding achievements in the field of medical physics in science and practice" with the Glocker Medal, which is awarded annually in memory of the first DGMP honorary member Prof. Dr Richard Glocker. For Kollmeier, the award was accompanied by the opportunity to present Oldenburg hearing research at the annual conference with around 1,300 participating experts. His "Glocker Lecture" was entitled "Hearing for all: from empirical hearing research to modern precision audiology".

Kollmeier has been researching and teaching at the University of Oldenburg since 1993. He is Director of the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics at School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is also Scientific Director of Hörtech gGmbH, Hörzentrum Oldenburg GmbH and the Fraunhofer Project Group for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology. Kollmeier has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Karl Küpfmüller Ring of the Technical University of Darmstadt (2009), the Lower Saxony Science Prize (2011), the International Award of the American Academy of Audiology (2012) and the German Future Prize (Federal President's Prize for Technology and Innovation, 2012). He is a member of the board of the European Federation of Audiological Societies (EFAS) as "Incoming President".