Marisa Poulos
Marisa Poulos
Prior to joining NAL, Marisa completed a Bachelor of Medical Sciences and a Master of Clinical Audiology at Macquarie University. She previously worked as a clinical audiologist, gaining extensive experience in adult hearing assessment, device fitting and rehabilitation. Marisa is a Full Member of Audiology Australia and has also undertaken vocational roles at NextSense (The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children).
Marisa is passionate about helping individuals improve their hearing and communication outcomes. Her current research areas include hearing aid technology, cochlear implantation, teleaudiology, and hidden hearing loss. Further research interests include educational audiology and science communication.
Education
Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Macquarie University)
Master of Clinical Audiology (Macquarie University)
Projects
LIT testing is not sentitive enough for normal-moderate hearing loss, thus this project aims to create new testing for moderate hearing loss, which is language independent.
The aim of this project was to predict when hearing aid users were most likely to prefer a directional microphone, ranging from omnidirectional to super directional, in realistic listening background noise conditions either when listening to a frontal talker or when not target talker was present.
This project aimed to create a diagnostic tool to identify individuals who have normal or nearly normal hearing, but still struggle to hear in noise.
Designing and demonstrating the feasibility of three novel tests based on auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) – signals recorded from the brain that are associated with the activity of the neurons in response to sounds.
