Marina was born in Buenos Aires, where she received her MA in Audiology and Speech and Language Therapy in 2002 (Universidad del Salvador, Medical School). After being clinically trained at President Perón Hospital and at the Centre for the Identification of Children’s Hearing Loss she moved to Spain. There she worked as an audiologist at La Coruna University Hospital (2003-2009), and as a teacher on “Selection and fitting of hearing aids” at CIFP Anxel Casal (2005-2009). Marina also took part in developing the Curriculum for technicians on hearing aids for both the Spanish and Galician Ministries of Education. She obtained an Expert Degree in Audiology from the University of Salamanca in 2007.

Marina is now a PhD student at the Hearing Lab. Her research is supported by the RNID (Royal National Institute for the Deaf) and is concerned with different forms of frequency lowering hearing aids for people with high frequency dead regions in the cochlea. She is an Honorary Cambridge European Trust Scholar and a junior member of Wolfson College.

e-mail: ms878@cam.ac.uk

 

 

 

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