Welcome! We are the Deep Hearing Lab led by Dr Tobias Goehring. 

Our research is to better understand and to improve sound and speech perception by people with hearing difficulties. 

Communication in noisy places is a major problem for people with hearing loss. We work on improving sound perception with hearing devices (cochlear implants, hearing aids and hearables) and combine techniques from engineering, audiology, neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence to better understand the limitations and to develop improved methods for hearing devices and clinical applications. An important part is the collaboration with people who use hearing devices to receive their feedback and to evaluate our developments.

We are based at the University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, and are affiliated with the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. 

Funders include the Swiss National Science Foundation, Medical Research Council, Fondation pour l'Audition, the Evelyn Trust, Wellcome Trust and Newton Trust and RNID. 

We need volunteers. If you want to help, get in touch!

Finally, learn more about cochlear implants by visiting our research demo.