Ingeborg hochmair biography of william

Austrian electrical engineer

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 Vie Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer - IEEE Awards VOHYN