Mark E Lutman

Mark E. Lutman received the B.Sc. degree in engineering science in 1971, the M.Sc. degree in sound and vibration in 1972, and the Ph.D. degree in audiology in 1976, all from the University of Southampton. Following a Research Fellow position from 1975 at the University of Southampton, he was appointed as a Medical Research Council Scientist at the Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham from 1979 until he took up his present position as Professor of Audiology and Head of the Hearing and Balance Centre at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research of the University of Southampton. His research interests include: signal processing for hearing aids and cochlear implants, measurement of cochlear function from otoacoustic emissions, neonatal and adult hearing screening, cochlear implantation, epidemiology of hearing impairment and balance disorder, evaluation of benefit from hearing instruments, and noise-induced hearing loss. Prof. Lutman was editor of the British Journal of Audiology from 1991 to 1995 and President of the British Academy of Audiology from 2007 to 2008. He is a Fellow of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology.