Prof Colette McKay

Professor McKay is an international leader in hearing research with multidisciplinary expertise in psychophysics, electrophysiology, fNIRS imaging, speech perception, speech processing and mathematical modelling. She has contributed significantly to the success of the family of cochlear implants manufactured by Cochlear Ltd, for which she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science.  She has led research teams and held professorial positions at the University of Melbourne, Aston University (UK) and Manchester University (UK). Since 2013 she has led the Translational Hearing Research group at the Bionics Institute, where she set up Australia’s first fNIRS imaging laboratory dedicated to hearing science and since 2015 has led the development of the EarGenie device for infant hearing assessment.