Ingeborg Hochmair

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Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer
Born1953
Vienna, Austria
OccupationMED-EL
SpouseErwin Hochmair
AwardsLasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsMED-EL

Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer (born 1953) is an Austrian electrical engineer and the CEO and CTO of hearing implant company MED-EL.[1] Dr Hochmair and her husband Prof. Erwin Hochmair co-created the first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant in the world.[2] She received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for her contributions towards the development of the modern cochlear implant.[3] She also received the 2015 Russ Prize for bioengineering.[4]

In 1989, she co-founded the medical device company MED-EL.[4]

Biography

Ingeborg Hochmair was born in 1953 in Vienna, Austria.[5] Her mother was a physicist and her father was Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Vienna University of Technology.[6] Her grandmother was one of the first female chemical engineers in Austria.

She commenced her studies at Technical University of Vienna in electrical engineering in 1971, and in 1975, she became the first woman in Austria to receive a PhD in electrical engineering.[7] Her dissertation was on the "Technical realization and psychoacoustic evaluation of a system for multichannel chronic stimulation of the auditory nerve."[8]

From 1976 to 1986 she worked as Assistant Professor at the Institute of General Electrical Engineering and Electronics at Technical University of Vienna. She also worked at Stanford University's Institute for Electronics in Medicine as a Visiting Associate Professor in 1979.[2] In 1986, she moved from Vienna to Innsbruck, where she taught (first as Assistant Professor and later as Associate Professor) at the Institute of Applied Physics Electronics of University of Innsbruck until 1989. In 1998 she achieved Venia Legendi (Univ. Doz.) in Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Technical University of Vienna.[2]

In 1989, Hochmair co-founded the hearing implant company MED-EL, along with husband Erwin Hochmair.[9] She remains CEO and CTO of the company.[4]

Outside of MED-EL, Hochmair continues to support research in the field of science and technology. In 2012, an endowed professorship in microelectronics and implantable systems was introduced at the University of Innsbruck’s Institute for Mechatronics, supported by Hochmair.[10] The University of Innsbruck also offers Ingeborg Hochmair Professorships, an endowed professorship aimed at supporting female researchers in science and technology.[11]

Hearing implant research & work

In 1975 Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair started the cochlear implant development at Technical University of Vienna with the overall goal of enabling the user not only to hear sounds but also to provide some speech understanding. Together they developed the world's first microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant. This implant included a long, flexible electrode, which could, for the first time, deliver electric signals to the auditory nerve along a large part of the cochlea, the snail-shaped inner ear.[12] Previous cochlear implant designs provided single-channel stimulation.  The new multi-channel device was implanted in December 1977 in Vienna by Dr Kurt Burian.[13]

In 1979, a modified version of this first device allowed a woman to understand words and sentences without lip-reading in a quiet environment via a small, body-worn sound processor. This was a major milestone in the development of modern cochlear implants.[14]

Through MED-EL, Hochmair has led many further advances in hearing implant research, including the introduction of a behind-the-ear audio processor in 1991, new sound coding strategies, and the development of single-unit audio processors.[15] A totally implantable cochlear implant is currently in development.[16]

Publications

Ingeborg Hochmair has over 100 scientific publications in the field of Cochlear Implants, Medical Devices, Neuroprotheses, Audio & Speech Processing Technology. Among the most important ones are the following:

  • with E. Hochmair: Implantable eight-channel stimulator for the deaf. In: Proc. European Solid State Circuits Conf. (ESSCIRC) 77. Ulm, BRD Sept. 1977, S. 87–89.
  • Verfahren zur elektrischen Stimulation des Hörnervs und Multikanal Hörprothese zur Durchführung des Verfahrens, (1978).[17]
  • Multifrequency system and method for enhancing auditory stimulation and the like, (1979).[18]
  • with E. S. Hochmair: Design and fabrication of multi-wire scala tympani electrodes. In: Annals of the New York Academy of Science. Band 405, 1983, S. 173–182.[19]
  • Technische Realisierung und psychoakustische Evaluation eines Systems zur chronischen Mehrkanalstimulation des Nervus acusticus. Dissertation. TU Vienna, 1981, ISBN 3-85369-491-8.[20]
  • with E. S. Hochmair und K. Burian: Four years of experience with cochlear prostheses (invited). In: Med. Prog. Technol. 8, 1981, S. 107–119.[21]
  • with E. S. Hochmair und H. K. Stiglbrunner: Psychoacoustic temporal processing and speech understanding in cochlear implant patients. In: R. A. Schindler, M. M. Merzenich: Cochlear Implant. Raven Press, New York, 1985, ISBN 0-88167-076-6, S. 291–304/.
  • with C. Zierhofer und E. S. Hochmair: New hardware for analog and combined-analog-and-pulsatile sound-encoding strategies. In: Progress in Brain Research. Vol. 97, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993, S. 291–300.[22]
  • with W. Arnold, P. Nopp, C. Jolly, J. Müller und P. Roland: Deep electrode insertion in Cochlear implants: Apical Morphology, electrodes and speech perception results. In: Acta Otolaryngol. 123 (5), 2003, S. 612–617.[23]
  • with P. Nopp und C. Jolly u. a.: MED-EL Cochlear implants: State of the art and a glimpse into the future. In: Trends in Amplification. 10(4), Dez 2006, S. 201–219.[24]
  • The importance of being flexible. In: Nat Med. 19 (10), Okt 2013, S. 1240–1244.

Awards and honours

  • 1977      Best Paper Award, European Solid State Circuits Conference, Ulm, BRD 
  • 1981      Technological Excellence Award, 2nd Place, Tech Ex 81, Vienna - Atlanta 
  • 1981      Holzer Prize, Technical University of Vienna[9]
  • 1980      Premio Leonardo da Vinci Award[9]
  • 1984      Sandoz Prize, Vienna[9]
  • 1995      Business Woman of the Year Award (Prix Veuve Clicquot)[9]
  • 1996      Wilhelm Exner Medal[9]
  • 2004      Honorary Doctorate in Medicine, Technical University of Munich[25]
  • 2008      Medal of Honour, State of Tyrol[26]
  • 2010      Honorary Doctorate, Medical University of Innsbruck[27]
  • 2011      Cross of Merit, City of Innsbruck[28]
  • 2012      Honorary Membership of the German Audiological Society (DGA)[6]
  • 2013      Honorary Senator of the University of Innsbruck[29]
  • 2013      Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, New York, USA[7] 
  • 2014      Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize, Austrian Research Foundation[30]
  • 2015      Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize, US National Academy of Engineering[4] 
  • 2015      Ring of Honour, State of Tyrol[31]
  • 2015      Johann Joseph Ritter von Prechtl Medal, Technical University of Vienna[32]
  • 2016      Business Advisor, Tyrolean Chamber of Commerce[33]
  • 2016      Technology Prize, Eduard Rhein Foundation Munich[34]
  • 2017      Ring of Honour, District of Garbsen[35]
  • 2018      Honorary Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences[36]
  • 2018      Shambaugh Prize, Corlas[37]
  • 2018      Honorary Doctorate, University of Bern[38]
  • 2020      Honorary Doctorate, University of Uppsala[39] 
  • 2021 Honorary Doctorate in Science, University of Innsbruck[10]

Personal life

Hochmair is married to her husband and business partner, Erwin Hochmair. The couple have four children.[6]

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  15. ^ Dhanasingh, Anandhan; Hochmair, Ingeborg (31 March 2021). "Signal processing & audio processors". Acta Oto-Laryngologica. 141 (sup1): 106–134. doi:10.1080/00016489.2021.1888504. ISSN 0001-6489. PMID 33818264.
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  17. ^ DE 2823798, Hochmair, Erwin & Hochmair, Ingeborg, "Verfahren zur elektrischen Stimulation des Hoernervs und Multikanal-Hoerprothese zur Durchfuehrung des Verfahrens [Method for electrical stimulation of the sensory nerve and multi-channel sensor prosthesis for performing the procedure]", published 1979-09-13, assigned to Siemens AG 
  18. ^ US 4284856, Hochmair, Ingeborg & Hochmair, Erwin, "Multi-frequency system and method for enhancing auditory stimulation and the like", published 1981-08-18 
  19. ^ Hochmair-Desoyer, I. J.; Hochmair, E. S.; Burian, K. (1983). "Design and fabrication of multiwire scala tympani electrodes". Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 405: 173–182. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1983.tb31630.x. ISSN 0077-8923. PMID 6575641.
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