The listening challenge: How ageing brains adapt (AUDADAPT),
ERC Consolidator Grant, 2016–2021
Jonas Obleser
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Research Building “Lübeck Environment for Minds and Machines in Interaction” (LEMMI)
for the University of Lübeck (competitive funding, Wissenschaftsrat Germany, from federal and state funds according to Art. 91b GG),
funding 63.6 mio. €, 2025–2029
Spokesperson and academic lead: Jonas Obleser
including a whole-head OPM-Magnetoencephalography device
a large Interactive virtual environment, and
a humanoid robot system
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Max Planck Society |
Max Planck Research Group “Auditory Cognition”,
Max Planck Society, 2011–2015
Jonas Obleser
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Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (DFG) |
How perceptual inference changes with age: Behavioural and brain dynamics of speech perception
DFG, 2024–2027
(PI: Sarah Tune)
Capture and suppression in auditory attention
DFG, 2024–2027
(PI: Malte Wöstmann)
The impact of domain-general networks on natural language comprehension
DFG, 2022–2025
Jonas Obleser (Co-PI: Gesa Hartwigsen, MPI Leipzig)
Network identification and characterization of spatial attention in the listening brain
DFG, 2020–2023
(PI: Mohsen Alavash)
Modulating neural dynamics of speech comprehension: The role of the angular gyrus
DFG, 2017–2020
Jonas Obleser (Co-PI: Gesa Hartwigsen, MPI Leipzig)
Assessment of the dynamic exertion of listening effort: A lifespan perspective
DFG, 2020–2024
Jonas Obleser (Co-PI: Björn Herrmann)
One clock? Investigating the Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Implicit and Explicit Timing
DFG, 2016–2019
(PI: Sophie Herbst)
Competence Cluster “Anonymization for Medical Applications”,
BMBF (Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Germany), 2022–2025
Spokesperson: Esfandiar Mohammadi, University of Lübeck
Co-PI Jonas Obleser
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Widex Sivantos Audiology |
Navigating the real world and its trajectory in the ageing listening mind
Widex Sivantos Audiology (WSA), Germany/Denmark, 2023–2026
Jonas Obleser
Attending and ignoring in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners
Sivantos, Germany, 2019–2022
Jonas Obleser
Understanding the hearing-impaired brain,
Siemens Audiology Solutions, 2012–2015
Jonas Obleser
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Damp Foundation |
Hanseatic Hearing [‘Hörhanse’] – Building a sustainable transfer and translation platform for hearing health
Damp Foundation, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 2023–2026
Jonas Obleser, Co-PI with Hanse Innovation Campus GmbH, Hendrik Husstedt, Markus Kallinger, Anke Leichtle
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Oticon |
Neural adaptive control in the hearing aid (NEURO-CHAT),
Oticon Foundation, 2015–2018
Jonas Obleser (Co-PI: T. Lunner, Eriksholm)
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Cochlear |
Modelling bimodal benefit,
Cochlear Inc., 2019–2021
Jonas Obleser (Co-PI: Malte Wöstmann)
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Volkswagen-stiftung |
Towards the brain-informed, brain-controlled hearing aid (BIT-CHAT),
Volkswagen Foundation “Experiment!”, 2015–2016
Jonas Obleser (Co-PI: T. Lunner, Eriksholm)