Rate My Professor David McAlpine

Professor David McAlpine is Distinguished Professor of Hearing, Language and the Brain and Academic Director of Macquarie University Hearing in the Department of Linguistics within the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences at Macquarie University. He earned a BSc (Hons I) from the University of Western Australia and a DPhil in Neuroscience from the University of Oxford. Before joining Macquarie in 2015, he was Professor of Auditory Neuroscience and Director of the UCL Ear Institute at University College London from 2006 to 2015. An Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow since 2016, McAlpine received the prestigious award for his research on spatial hearing mechanisms in the auditory brain. In 2021, he was granted an Einstein Visiting Fellowship to study statistical learning in auditory perception. His research specializes in the neural basis of hearing, encompassing sound localization, interaural time difference coding, neural population coding of sound levels, adaptation to acoustic environments, hidden hearing loss, tinnitus, and cochlear implant optimization.