About us

Eriksholm Research Centre is part of Oticon, a world leader in hearing care. We share the same philosophy that people are our main source of insights. Therefore, we are committed to making audiological discoveries with the potential to significantly enhance end-user benefits in future hearing care.  

At Eriksholm Research Centre we strive to identify means of improving the listening experience for people using hearing solutions. We do this by exploring how the brain processes sound and by uncovering parameters which determine the individual’s listening experience.  

We engage in close collaborations with world leading academic research institutions. By bringing experts together, we are able to create mutually beneficial research synergies and open up new lines of inquiry in the broader research community. 

By engaging in continuous dialogue with a large number of people living with hearing loss and the care professionals dedicated to helping them, we are able to maintain a deep understanding of the real-life implications of hearing loss and gauge the impact of our ideas with real people in their everyday lives. 

The result is a team of multi-disciplinary staff able to identify and demonstrate new opportunities within audiology, signal processing and behavioral science.

 

History

Eriksholm Research Centre was established in 1976 with the purpose of physically detaching a handful of engineers from the shorter-term, product-based research in Oticon’s research and development department and allow them the opportunity to do longer-term and more basic research at a separate location for potential, later application in hearing solutions. 

Today more than 40 scientists do research within four different, but still closely connected areas: Personalized audiology, Cognitive Hearing Science, Intent Decoding and Artificial Intelligence. We have four designated laboratories, two clinics for hearing-rehabilitation of our more than 300 test subjects, and an auditorium for dissemination of our findings. 

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Partner with Eriksholm

At Eriksholm Research Centre we are always on the look-out for opportunities to collaborate with experienced talents from elsewhere in international academia. Perhaps you have an idea for a pioneering project where one or more of our scientists would be a great match?

Or perhaps you would like to join our scientific team a principal scientist or fellow. Either way, if you are a recognized scientist within one or more of Eriksholm’s scientific focus areas, we invite you to reach out.

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Our team

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Svend Feldt
Principal Machine Learning Engineer

“I am driven by the pursuit of questions and the process of simplifying their answers”.

Dorothea Wendt
Dorothea Wendt
Principal Scientist

“Great research within the hearing care field is going on all over the globe currently, and I really hope this work will be implemented in future hearing aids to further improve quality of life for people with hearing impairment. I expect to see even smarter hearing aids that will be able to interact more with the environment and the hearing aid user by knowing the intention of the user. A lot of exciting work will impact the future.”

Lena-Marie Huttner
Lena-Marie Huttner
Scientist

“One fascinating aspect of hearing science – especially when it comes to communication – is that you are both looking at universal mechanisms of human cognition and how these are shaped by individual traits, preferences, and habits. Finding this balance between the general and the individual is really interesting to me.”

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Dorothea Wendt
Dorothea Wendt
Principal Scientist

“Great research within the hearing care field is going on all over the globe currently, and I really hope this work will be implemented in future hearing aids to further improve quality of life for people with hearing impairment. I expect to see even smarter hearing aids that will be able to interact more with the environment and the hearing aid user by knowing the intention of the user. A lot of exciting work will impact the future.”

Thomas Ulrich Christiansen
Thomas Ulrich Christiansen
Scientist

“Like our predecessors we stand on the shoulders of scientist of the past. I hope to see even closer collaboration between scientific fields to create even more synergistic progress to the benefit of everyday lives of both rich and poor.”

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History of hearing aids

The Eriksholm Collection charts the history of hearing aids and hosts a unique collection of mechanical, electrical, and electronic instruments. 

As one of the most complete collections in the world, the Eriksholm Collection provides an impressive overview of the advances in hearing-aid technology over more than a century. In addition to more than 800 historic hearing aids, the collection also contains about 50 different brands of mechanical devices from the US and Europe, dating from 1800 to 1950. The Eriksholm Collection charts the history of hearing aids and hosts a unique collection of mechanical, electrical, and electronic instruments. 

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Students

We benefit from collaborating with potential future scientists. That is why we regularly invite master and PhD students to spend time at Eriksholm as interns or to carry out experiments for and writing their thesis. 

Eriksholm Research Centre’s team of multi-talented professionals is dedicated to identifying and demonstrating new opportunities within audiology, signal processing and behavioural science. PhD students contribute greatly to our overall scientific advancement. Meet them here.

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