Our Scientists and Team

At Ear Science Institute Australia, 30 scientific staff and over 100 associated research, technical, clinical and support staff are working towards new hearing treatments for today and cures for tomorrow.

If you would like to contact one of our researchers about their work, please use our contact us page.

Executive
Heads of Department
Research Leads and Fellows

Anjula De Silva

Research Fellow

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Barbara Heinze

Audiologist

Christo Bester

Research Lead | Clinical Physiology

Filippo Valente

R&D Manager

Pramod Dorishetty

Research Scientist

Trish Bramich-Smith

Head of Research Finance

Research Assistants

Christine Bacal

Research Associate

Derek Delaney

Research Officer

Fiona Leith

Research Assistant

Hema Patel

Research Assistant

Joey Lye

Research Assistant

Paul McIlhiney

Matthew Zimmerman

Research Assistant

Paul McIlhiney

Research Assistant

Rong Tan

Research Assistant

Sharon Redmond

Laboratory Manager

PhD Candidates
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Haleema Ijaz

PhD Candidate

Honorary Appointments

Bec Bennett

Senior Honorary Research Fellow

Anton Hinton-Bayre

Honorary Research Fellow

Cathy Sucher

Honorary Research Fellow

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Chris Lawrence

Honorary Research Fellow

Huan Ting Ong

Honorary Research Fellow

Lawrence Liew

Honorary Research Fellow

Li Shan Chiu

Honorary Research Fellow

Rebecca Heywood

Honorary Research Fellow

Stuart Favilla

Honorary Research Fellow

Susan Tegg-Quinn

Honorary Research Fellow

Susannah Soon

Honorary Research Fellow

Victor Chuang

Honorary Research Fellow

Xinxing Fu

Research Program Officer

Research Support Staff

Rebecca Campbell

Research Program Officer

Emma Ireland

Community & Education Project Officer

Anthea Somas

Senior Communications Advisor

Carel Smit

IP Manager

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