Biography for Brian C.J. Moore
Brian Moore received his B.A. in Natural
Sciences in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics in 1971, both from the
University of Cambridge, England. He is
currently Professor of Auditory Perception in the University of Cambridge. He has also been a Visiting Professor at
Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, and the University of
California at Berkeley and was a van Houten Fellow at the Institute for
Perception Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His research interests are:
the perception of sound; mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments;
relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal
processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; methods for fitting
hearing aids to the individual; design and specification of high-fidelity
sound-reproducing equipment; perception of music and of musical
instruments. He is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of London, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow
of the Acoustical Society of America, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian
Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He is a member of the Experimental
Psychology Society (U.K.), the British Society of Audiology, The American
Speech-Language Hearing Association, The American Auditory Society, The
Acoustical Society of Japan, the Audio Engineering Society, the Association for
Research in Otolaryngology and the American Academy of Audiology. He is President of the Association of
Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK). He has written or edited 15 books and over 500 scientific papers
and book chapters. He has twice
received the Littler Prize of the British Society of Audiology. In 2003 he was awarded the Acoustical
Society of America Silver Medal in physiological and psychological
acoustics. In 2004 he received the
first "International Award in Hearing" from the American Academy of
Audiology. In 2008 he received the
“Award of Merit” from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the
Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement from Northwestern
University. In 2010 he gave the
Distinguished Heyser memorial Lecture to the Audio Engineering Society. He is wine steward of Wolfson College,
Cambridge.
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