Grants

2016 – 2020 H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015 (Beneficiary)
ENRICH: Enriched communication across the lifespans http://www.enrich-etn.eu/
2016 – 2019 BCN Brain PhD funding, UMCG (Co-PI: Prof. F. Cornelissen, PhD: Drs. M. De Boer)
Perceiving the emotion in communication by persons with combined visual and auditory impairment
2016 – 2019 UMCG Mandema Stipendium (Supervisor, PI: Drs. C. Fuller)
Auditory perception in early-deafened, late-implanted cochlear-implant users
2015 – 2016  Industry support from Med-El (PI, Co-PI: Dr. A. Wagner)
Aging effects on adaptation following cochlear implantation
2014 – 2018 Industry support (2+2 with UMCG), Advanced Bionics (Co-PI: Dr. E. Gaudrain)
Enhancing speech-in-noise perception by optimizing frequency allocation
2013 – 2016 BCN Brain PhD funding, UMCG (PI, PhD: Drs. A. Luckmann)
Bringing state-of-the art to better management of deafness: Using neurofeedback to increase cochlear implant performance.
2013 – 2015 FP7 Marie-Curie Intraeuropean Fellowship (Host, PI: Dr. A. Wagner)
MARCI: Mental representations of and adaptation to the speech signal transmitted
via cochlear implants: How the impoverished signal finds its way to the mental lexicon
2013 Industry Support, Advanced Bionics (Co-PIs: Dr. R. Free, Drs. C. Fuller)
Music therapies and training with cochlear-implant users
2012 Action in Hearing Loss, UK (Co-PI, PI: Prof. P. van Dijk)
Impaired gap detection: translation to human tinnitus
2012 Aspasia, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
2012 Stichting Steun Gehoorgestoorde Kind (Co-PI)
Quantification of listening effort with cochlear implants
2010 – 2015  VIDI, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
The curious case of phonemic restoration: a cognitive approach to speech perception with hearing impairment
2010 – 2014  Industry Support, Cochlear Europe Ltd.
Optimization and identification of bimodal/bilateral benefits with cochlear implants
2010 – 2013  ZonMw, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (Co-PI)
A safe auditory environment for persons with visual and intellectual disabilities
2010 Doorhout Mees Stichting (Co-PI)
Optimization of electric-acoustic hearing
2010 – Present  Heinsius Houbolt Fonds (Co-PI)
2009 – 2014  Rosalind Franklin Fellowship, UMCG, University of Groningen
2009 NIH/NIDCD RO3 (Recommended for funding)
Phonemic restoration and its impairments
2004 – 2005 The National Organization of Hearing Research (NOHR)
Is the information transmission by cochlear implants limited by listeners‘ peripheral auditory system?