Dr Simone Graetzer Ph.D., M.I.O.A.

Personal Statement

Simone is a Research Associate in Speech Research in the Acoustics Research Unit. Her research interests include speech intelligibility and speech quality, speech privacy, speech enhancement, noise reduction, psychoacoustics and the effects of room acoustics and noise on talkers and listeners. Her current research focuses on evaluating and improving the intelligibility of highly degraded speech signals. Prior to joining the Acoustics Research Unit, she was based at the Voice Biomechanics and Acoustics Laboratory at Michigan State University, where she primarily worked on a National Institutes of Health funded project concerning speech accommodation in occupational settings and acoustical environments.

She is a member of the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). She is also a member of the EPSRC UK Acoustic Network (UKAN) Steering Committee and the lead coordinator of the UKAN Early Careers Special Interest Group (2017 to current).

Prizes or Honours

• Recipient of Research Development Initiative Fund for project 'Speech intelligibility and enhancement at very low mixture signal-to-noise ratios' (University of Liverpool, 2018)
• Recipient of Research Development Initiative Fund for project 'Speech intelligibility and speech enhancement' (University of Liverpool, 2018)
• Elected as member of the IOA, the UK's professional body for those working in acoustics, noise and vibration (Institute of Acoustics (IOA), 2017)
• Elected by the Executive Council to Full Membership (Acoustical Society of America, 2017)
• Young Investigator Award for promising young acousticians (Acoustical Society of America, 2015)
• Nomination for Chancellor’s Prize for excellence in the Ph.D. thesis (University of Melbourne, 2013)
• Fully funded Ph.D studentship (Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, University of Melbourne, 2006)