Affiliation: Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Dr. Amarins N. Heeringa is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Christine Köppl, at the Department of Neuroscience of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Within the Cluster of Excellence “Hearing4All”, she is studying the functional consequences of cochlear aging on sound encoding in single auditory-nerve fibers. In 2007, she received her BSc degree in Life Science & Technology and in 2010, her MSc degree in Neuroscience, both from the University of Groningen. She obtained her PhD from the ENT department at the University Medical Center Groningen in 2014, where she studied the neurophysiological effects of acoustic trauma in the inferior colliculus, in the laboratory of Dr. Pim van Dijk. Next, she worked as an international research fellow at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan in the lab of Dr. Susan Shore. In the frame of that postdoctoral project, Dr. Heeringa investigated the role of non-auditory connections to the ventral cochlear nucleus in temporal encoding of amplitude-modulated sounds and in tinnitus. Since 2017, she works at the University of Oldenburg, where she moved her electrode even further peripheral by studying responses in single-auditory nerve fibers, the gateway between the peripheral and central auditory system.