Lab Personnel

Principal Investigators

Vinaya Manchaiah

Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine, US

De Wet Swanepoel

Professor of Audiology, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Lead Researchers

Eldre Beukes

Senior Lecturer in Audiology, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

IlZe Oosthuizen

Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Karina de Sousa

PhD Student, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Herman Myburgh 

Associate Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Biostatistician

Hansapani Rodrigo

Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, US

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Marien Graham

Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Postgraduate Students

Megan Knoetze

PhD Student University of Pretoria, South Africa

Caitlin Frisby

PhD Student, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Bopane Godwin Mothemela

PhD Student, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Ruth Avierinos

MA Audiology Student, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Visiting Researchers

Alumni

Graduate and Undergraduate Students

Arun Annamalai

MSc Computer Science Student, Lamar University, US

Alyssa Ulep

AuD Student, Lamar University, US

Denilson Calderon

AuD Student, Lamar University, US

Jisha Thomas

AuD Student, Lamar University, US

Kelli Lara

AuD Student, Lamar University, US

Marifer Munoz

AuD Student ( 2018-20 ), Lamar University, US

Sanchia van Bruggen

MA Audiology Student, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Tayla Heselton

MA Audiology student, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Taylor Eubank

AuD Student, Lamar University, US

Yared Rodriguez

AuD Student (2020-21), Lamar University, US

Collaborators

Abram Bailey

CEO Hearing Tracker, US

Aniruddha Deshpande

Associate Professor, Hofstra University, US

Rebecca Bennett

Research Fellow & Clinical Audiologist, Ear Science Institute of Australia, Australia

Brian Taylor

Senior Director of Audiology, Signia, US

Cas Smits

Audiologist VU Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Charlotte Vercammen

Audiological Researcher Sonova Group R&D, Switzerland

David Moore

Professor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, US

Emre Gürses

Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Hacettepe University, Turkey

Erin Picou

Associate Professor,Vanderbilt University, US

Faheema Mahomed-Asmail

Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Gerhard Andersson

Professor of Clinical Psychology, Linkoping University, Sweden

Hari Prakash P

Associate Professor, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India

Ilmari Pyykkö

Professor Emirates, University of Tampere, Finland

Jamie Pennebaker

Professor of Psychology University of Texas at Austin, US

Leigh Biagio de Jager

Associate professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Martin Riedi

Global Head of Marketing and Sales, EarWays Medical Ltd, Switzerland

Monica Bellon-Harn

Professor, Piedmont University, US

Pierre Ratinaud

Senior Lecturer, University of Toulouse, France

Raj Shekhawat

Professor, Flinders University, Australia

Rebecca Kelly-Campbell

Associate Professor, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Rob Eikelboom

Professor Ear science Institute of Australia, Australia

Ryan Boyd

Lecturer in Behavioural Analytics, Lancaster University, UK

Saad Bhamla

Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech University, US

Sıdıka Cesur

Assistant Professor, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey