2021 – 2025 ERA-NET NEURON Translational Research on Sensory Disorders (Partner in consortium with: Dr. E. Gaudrain, UMCG; Prof. Sarah Verhulst, Ghent Univ, Belgium; Dr. Jérôme Bourien and Prof. Jean-Luc Puel, France; Prof. Manuel Malmierca, Spain; and Prof. Marlies Knipper, Dr. Lukas Rüttiger, and Dr. Kerstin Just, Germany)
CoSySpeech: The functional role of cochlear synaptopathy for speech coding in the brain
2020 – 2024 Dorhout Mees Stichting (Co-PI: Dr. E. Harding)
The CI GAME: Musical training with Guided AudioMotor Exploration for cochlear-implant users
2020 – 2023 UMCG Kolff Institute PhD funding (Role: Promotor, co-promotor: Dr. L. Rachman, PhD: L. Meyer)
R2D2 for KNO: Use of a Humanoid Robot for Rehabilitation of Deaf Individuals
2019 – 2024 Sonova Industry Support (Co-PIs: Dr. E. Gaudrain, Prof. G. Sennaroğlu, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey)
Vocal emotion perception with children with hearing aids
2017 – 2023 NWO ZonMw VICI (Role: PI)
It takes two to communicate: Voice perception and linguistic content
2017 – 2021 NWO VENI (Role: Host, PI: Dr. Terrin Tamati)
More than words: Uncovering the effects of talkers’ voices on real-life speech perception by cochlear implant users
2016 – 2020 H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015 (Beneficiary, co-beneficiary: Dr. A. Wagner)
ENRICH: Enriched communication across the lifespans
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2016 – 2020 UMCG BCN Brain PhD funding (Role: Co-promotor, Promotor: Prof. F. Cornelissen, PhD: Drs. M. De Boer)
Perceiving the emotion in communication by persons with combined visual and auditory impairment
2016 – 2020 UitZicht (Role: Co-PI with Prof. F. Cornelissen)
What visual speech cues help visually impaired people?
2016 – 2019 UMCG Mandema Stipendium (Supervisor, Co-supervisor: Dr. R. Free, PI: Drs. C. Fuller)
Auditory perception in early-deafened, late-implanted cochlear-implant users
2015 – 2016 MED-EL Industry Support (Role: Co-PI, Co-PI: Dr. A. Wagner)
Aging effects on adaptation following cochlear implantation
2014 – 2018 2+2 Advanced Bionics UMCG grant (Role: Co-PI, Co-PI: Dr. E. Gaudrain)
Enhancing speech-in-noise perception by optimizing frequency allocation
2013 – 2016 UMCG BCN Brain PhD funding (Role: PI, PhD: Drs. A. Luckmann)
Bringing state-of-the art to better management of deafness: Using neurofeedback to increase cochlear implant performance.
2013 – 2015 FP7 Marie-Curie Intraeuropean Fellowship (Role: Host, PI: Dr. A. Wagner)
MARCI: Mental representations of and adaptation to the speech signal transmitted
via cochlear implants: How the impoverished signal finds its way to the mental lexicon
2013 Advanced Bionics Industry Support (Co-PIs: Dr. R. Free, Drs. C. Fuller)
Music therapies and training with cochlear-implant users
2012 Action in Hearing Loss, UK (Role: Co-PI, PI: Prof. P. van Dijk)
Impaired gap detection: translation to human tinnitus
2012 NWO Aspasia, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Role: PI)
2012 Stichting Steun Gehoorgestoorde Kind (Co-PI)
Quantification of listening effort with cochlear implants
2010 – 2015 NWO VIDI, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Role: PI)
The curious case of phonemic restoration: a cognitive approach to speech perception with hearing impairment
2010 – 2014 Cochlear Europe Ltd. Industry Support
Optimization and identification of bimodal/bilateral benefits with cochlear implants
2010 – 2013 NWO ZonMw, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Co-PI)
A safe auditory environment for persons with visual and intellectual disabilities
2010 Doorhout Mees Stichting (Co-PI)
Optimization of electric-acoustic hearing
2010 – Present Heinsius Houbolt Fonds (Co-PI)
2009 – 2014 RUG/UMCG Rosalind Franklin Fellowship
2009 NIH/NIDCD RO3 (Recommended for funding)
Phonemic restoration and its impairments
2004 – 2005 The National Organization of Hearing Research (NOHR)
Is the information transmission by cochlear implants limited by listeners‘ peripheral auditory system?