Physicist Bernd T. Meyer appointed

Dr. Bernd T. Meyer has been appointed Professorship of Communication Acoustics at the Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics.

He was previously head of a junior research group in the medical physics group and a member of the Hearing4all Cluster of Excellence at the University of Oldenburg. Meyer studied physics at the University of Oldenburg, where he also received his PhD in 2009. A scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) took him to the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California, as a postdoctoral fellow. From 2016 to 2017 the physicist spent a year conducting research at the Center for Speech and Language Processing at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA). He has also headed a junior research group in Oldenburg since 2011.

Meyer's research focuses on the processing and perception of language. He develops voice-controlled automated hearing tests and is investigating how machine listening can continuously improve speech intelligibility in hearing aids.