About Ingeborg
Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Dhooge is Head of the Ear Nose and Throat department at Ghent University Hospital and full professor at the Department of Head and Skin, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Ghent University since 2014. Her primary area of expertise is otology. Her research focusses on various aspects of hearing loss and tinnitus, balance disorders, (re)habilitation strategies, and the genetics underlying deafness and balance dysfunctions.
Furthermore, her group participates in the European Reference network Cranio, the European Reference Network for rare and/or complex craniofacial anomalies and ear, nose and throat (ENT) disorders. She is co-founder of Ghent auditory science platform (2016, GASP, gasp.ugent.be), a formalized collaborative research platform within Ghent University joining research groups in medicine, audiology and engineering promoting outreach to scientists, enterprises, and society at large.