Alan Archer-Boyd
Dr. Alan Archer-Boyd is a psychoacoustician and biomedical engineer, and an investigator scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK. He is currently investigating the effect of movement and dynamic-range compression on cochlear-implant listeners’ perception of the position of sounds. Previously he was a post-doc on the ICANHEAR project at the Institute for Communication Acoustics, Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, and a Ph.D. student at the MRC/CSO Institute of Hearing Research – Scottish Section. His main research interests are anything involving listener eye and head movement, and harnessing those cues for improved hearing-device signal processing. He also likes a well-recorded podcast and ludicrously unlistenable music.