Marina is an Assistant Research Professor who has previously worked as a clinical audiologist. Her PhD work was carried out at Professor Brian Moore’s Auditory Perception Group and was focused on the evaluation of hearing-aid signal processing for people with ‘dead regions in the cochlea’, an abnormality affecting a particular type of sensory cell in the inner ear. Since then, her research has remained focused on improving outcomes for people with hearing devices, including hearing aids and cochlear implants. At SOUND Lab, her main role has been the development of spatial listening tests for the BEARS (Both Ears) clinical trial and the coordination of the Cambridge hospital site. BEARS is an NIHR-funded national trial assessing whether virtual-reality training improves spatial listening for children with bilateral cochlear implants.

Other projects where she has worked were the proof-of-concept research of a bone-conduction device for children with glue ear, the investigation of the case for commissioning hearing checks for children in residential special schools, the development of services in an innovative clinician-researcher cochlear-implant clinic, and supporting the implementation of objective intraoperative measures to optimise cochlear-implant placement.

Marina is a Fellow of Wolfson College, where she is a tutor to undergraduate and graduate students. She is also a Fellow of the British Society of Audiology and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.