Julia Erb

Julia Erb is a researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. Her research interests include auditory perception and cognition. She is currently studying how auditory hallucinations may arise using psychoacoustics, brain imaging and computational modelling. Julia studied Biomedicine and Neuroscience at the Universities of Würzburg, Paris and Oxford. She completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute Leipzig in 2014. From 2014 – 2017 she worked as postdoc at Maastricht University and continued her postdoctoral research at the University of Lübeck from 2018 – 2021. In 2021, she was a hearing researcher at Mimi Hearing Technologies in Berlin where she advanced a hearing testing app and sound personalization. In 2022, she was awarded a FCT assistant researcher fellowship to study auditory hallucinations at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon.