HOLUBE Inga

Inga Holube is a professor for audiology at Jade University of Applied Sciences in Oldenburg, Germany. Although, her education was in physics, she is active in the field of audiology since more than 30 years. During this time, she has conducted basic research as well as applied her knowledge to the development of hearing instruments in the industry. Inga Holube obtained her post-graduate degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from the III. Physical Institute at Göttingen University in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 she worked as a research associate in the team of Prof. Dr. Dr. B. Kollmeier at the University of Oldenburg. During a one-year postdoctoral scholarship from the German Research Council (DFG), she visited research institutions in the Netherlands, the US, and the UK. From 1995 to 2001, she was head of the Audiological Research and System Technology department at Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH in Erlangen, Germany. In 1996, Inga Holube received her approval for Medical Physics and the certificate for Audiology of the German Society for Medical Physics. Since September 2001, she joined Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/ Wilhelmshaven University of Applied Sciences now reorganized to Jade University of Applied Sciences as a professor. Her main research interests are subjective and objective measures for the assessment of speech intelligibility and listening effort, the evaluation of hearing instruments as well as the epidemiology of hearing impairment. Inga Holube is a member of the German standardisation committee for hearing instruments and audiometric equipment, editor-in-chief (together with Uwe Baumann and Sebastian Hoth) for the German Journal of Audiology (Zeitschrift für Audiologie), member of the editorial board for International Journal of Audiology, board member of the German Audiological Society (DGA), and she won the science prize of the state of Lower Saxony (category outstanding scientist at a university of applied sciences) in 2018.