Professor Chris Plack (MA, PhD (Cantab.)) - personal details

Chris Plack was educated at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, where he obtained a BA in Natural Sciences in 1987 and a PhD in 1990. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for two years at the University of Minnesota, and for two years at the University of Sussex, before being awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1994. He moved to the University of Essex in 1998, and was promoted to Chair in 2001. He moved again to Lancaster University in 2005, before obtaining his present position of Ellis Llwyd Jones Professor of Audiology at the University of Manchester in 2008. Chris Plack has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, 10 book chapters, and an introductory textbook on hearing. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

• Elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America since 2003
• Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America since 2009
• Member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

• 1990 - PhD (Cantab.) - Psychoacoustics
• 1987- BA (Hons.) 1st class (Cantab.) - Natural Sciences

• Head of Division of Human Communication and Deafness
• Member of Audiology and Deafness Research and Teaching Groups