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Research Audiologist – Heuser Hearing Institute, Louisville, KY The Heuser Hearing Institute seeks a full-time research audiologist to join its research team. The audiologist will contribute to a project that develops and evaluates innovative hearing aid processing strategies for hearing-impaired listeners.
The project is a collaboration between hearing scientists at the Heuser Hearing Institute (contact: Dr. Pavel Zahorik) and Sonova (contact: Dr. Olaf Strelcyk). Primary duties of the audiologist will include: audiometric evaluation, diagnostics-based hearing
aid fitting, and implementation of aided and un-aided testing procedures designed to approximate complex listening situations in everyday communication. The ideal applicant will have had previous experience in research, preferably with human subjects, familiarity
with quantitative methods of data and signal analysis, including Matlab, and an interest in hearing aid technology. Applicants must have earned an Au.D. or equivalent degree. Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position. The Heuser Hearing Institute is a multi-specialty nonprofit campus that promotes the needs of children and adults with disorders of hearing and balance. The Heuser Hearing Institute began in 1948 as the Louisville Deaf Oral School, and
today serves Louisville and the surrounding region with an expanded mission that includes education, clinical care, and research components. Researchers at Heuser study spatial hearing, speech perception, and language development. All are affiliated with the
University of Louisville. Additional information about research at Heuser is available at:
www.thehearinginstitute.org/about-heuser/research-center/about-the-heuser-research-center-2/ Sonova, headquartered in Staefa, Switzerland, is the leading manufacturer of innovative hearing care solutions worldwide. The group operates through its core business brands – Phonak, Unitron, Advanced Bionics and Connect Hearing – and
offers its customers one of the most comprehensive product portfolios in the industry – from hearing aids to cochlear implants to wireless communication solutions.
Applicants should send their CV and a list of at least 2 references to Dr. Pavel Zahorik (pavel.zahorik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). |