Chris Plack

Biography

Chris Plack was educated at Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, where he obtained a BA in Natural Sciences in 1987 and a PhD in 1990, specialising in psychoacoustics. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow for two years at the University of Minnesota, and for two years at the University of Sussex, before being awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1994. He moved to the University of Essex in 1998, and was promoted to Chair in 2001. He moved again to Lancaster University in 2005, before obtaining his present position of Ellis Llwyd Jones Professor of Audiology at the University of Manchester in 2008. He is also currently Professor of Auditory Neuroscience at Lancaster University. Chris Plack has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, 12 book chapters, an introductory textbook on hearing, and two volumes as lead editor. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.

Qualifications

• 1990 - PhD (Cantab.) - Psychoacoustics
• 1987- BA (Hons.) 1st class (Cantab.) - Natural Sciences