Professor

BSc Genetics (UCL) , BA Mathematical Sciences (Open), DPhil Neurophysiology (Oxon)

Telephone:   3943 5144

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Address:

  323A, Lo Kwee-Seong Integrated Biomedical Sciences Building

Website:  

https://auditoryneuroscience.org/

Biography

Prof. SCHNUPP Wilbert Jan Hendrick graduated from University College London with a Bachelor in Genetics in 1990 and obtained a doctorate in Neurophysiology from the University of Oxford in 1996 and a bachelor in mathematical sciences from the Open University in 2006. He was a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and a visiting research fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison before joining the faculty of the University of Oxford in 2002, where he was promoted to Professor in 2010. He joined the faculty of City University of Hong Kong in 2016, and got promoted to Chair Professor in 2023. In 2024, Jan joined the faculty of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He is interested in how sensory processing interpret auditory inputs to the brain are transformed to underpin subjective perceptual qualities of sound such as pitch, timbre and sound source location, and how the brain learns to adapt to the statistical structure of the sounds in our environment to form efficient neural representations of sound and to support auditory scene analysis.