About ARCHES
ARCHES (Audiological Research Cores in Europe) is a European network of research groups focusing on hearing science. Its aim is to stimulate networking, interaction, and scientific collaboration among researchers in the auditory field.
Every year, the ARCHES collaboration (Audiological Research Cores in Europe), with partners from Amsterdam-Groningen, Copenhagen, Leuven, Nottingham, Oldenburg, Paris, Salamanca, and Zurich, comes together in October or November. This initiative began after the HearCom EU project. Since 2008, these teams, joined by a few others, have continued to meet annually to share research developments and facilitate collaboration.
The network currently includes the following partners:
KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
Research group Experimental Otorhinolaryngology (ExpORL)
Department of Neurosciences
Contact: Astrid van Wieringen, Jan Wouters, Nicolas Verhaert, Tom Francart
University Hospital Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)
Laboratory of Experimental Audiology
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Contact: Flurin Pfiffner, Norbert Dillier
Carl von Ossietzky Universität & Hörzentrum Oldenburg (Oldenburg, Germany)
Medical Physics Section
Department of Medical Physics and Acoustics
Contact: Birger Kollmeier
Technical University of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Centre for Applied Hearing Research
Department of Health Technology
Contact: Torsten Dau
Ecole normale supérieure (Paris, France)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs
Contact: Christian Lorenzi
Amsterdam University Medical Center (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Department of Clinical and Experimental Audiology
Contact: Cas Smits
Lab website (location VUmc), Lab website (location AMC)
University Medical Center Groningen (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Department of Otolaryngology, Audiology Group
Contact: Pim van Dijk, Deniz Başkent
Nottingham University (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Contact: Mike Akeroyd
Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)
Instituto de Neurociencias de Castilla y León
Contact: Enrique Lopez-Poveda