Prof. Colette McKay
Colette is an international leader in the field of psychophysics with electrical stimulation, and her multidisciplinary research combines psychophysics, electrophysiology, imaging, speech perception, speech processing and mathematical modelling with the aim of improving clinical outcomes of auditory implants. She contributed significantly to the design and signal processing strategies used in the family of cochlear implants manufactured by Cochlear Ltd. She graduated and received her PhD from the University of Melbourne in the fields of mathematics and physics. From 1991-2004, she was Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, and then Principal Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Department of Otolaryngology. From 2005 to 2013 she held chair and research group leadership positions at Aston University, Birmingham, and Manchester University in the UK.
Since 2013 Colette has led the Translational Hearing Research group at the Bionics Institute, where she set up Australia’s first fNIRS imaging laboratory dedicated to hearing science. Her lab has developed new hearing assessments for infants with hearing impairment, which are now on a commercial path.
Other GPRWMF awards received by awardee | Year | |
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Conjoint Grant | Improving language development outcomes in deaf children | 2018 |
Conjoint Grant | Detecting and ameliorating the impact of neural dead regions in cochlear implant users | 2020 |