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## Meet the editors

Dr. Stavros Hatzopoulos has been a faculty member of the Audiology & ENT Clinic, at the University of Ferrara, Italy, since 1994. His background is in biomedical, engineering, audiological engineering, and hearing science (BSc degree from the University of Southern California, MSc from Texas A&M, Ph.D. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts). He received his habilitation as an associate professor in 2014. He is

the author of more than 225 book chapters, peer review papers, and congress presentations. He has participated in numerous European Concerted Action projects in the areas of otoacoustic emissions, genetics, and nanotechnologies. He currently serves as the editor of the Portal on Otoacoustic Emissions (www.otoemissions. org), as the Audiology section editor for the journal of Hearing Science and as the Managing editor for the Journal of Hearing, Balance & Communication.

Dr. Andrea Ciorba, MD, has been a member of the Audiology & ENT Clinic, at the University of Ferrara, Italy, since 2004. He is the author of about 190 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, and he is a member of the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals. His clinical field of interest is audiology and vestibology, and he is also involved in research activities in the field of otoacoustic emissions and inner ear

electrophysiology. After earning his degree in Medicine in 1999 and a Diploma in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery in October 2003, he obtained a Ph.D. in Audiology in March 2008. Since November 2020, he is an Associate Professor of Audiology at the Audiology & ENT Clinic, at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

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