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

Hohmann studied physics in Göttingen, where he also completed his doctorate. He has worked at the Institute of Physics at the University of Oldenburg since 1993. He received the Lothar Cremer Prize from the German Society for Acoustics (DEGA), the most important prize for young scientists in the field of acoustics, for his habilitation thesis.

Hohmann is one of the founders of the Oldenburg Hearing Centre. He is deputy head of the University's Medical Physics Department and Head of Research and Development at the HörTech Center of Competence. Hohmann's research stays have taken him to Boston University (USA) and the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona (Spain). The research focus of the scientist 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 from 16/01/2013]