Cris Lanting, Ph.D.

About

I am a Medical Physicist–Audiologist (MPE) at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, working at the intersection of hereditary hearing loss, cochlear implantation, and inner-ear therapeutics. The question that runs through all of it: how does a person’s genetic make-up shape how they hear — and what we can do about it?

My career started in auditory neuroscience — imaging tinnitus with fMRI at the University of Groningen and later at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham. Over time the work shifted from the brain toward the clinic: genetic diagnosis, audiological phenotyping, cochlear implantation outcomes, and now Phase 1/2 gene therapy trials. That translational arc — from bench to patient and back — is what I find most satisfying about the work.

Outside the clinic and lab, I spend time on photography (usually outdoors, often combined with travel), and on music, film, and animation — the boundary between work interests and leisure interests is deliberately blurred on this site.

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Portrait photo: Merlijn Janssen Steenberg / Magic Lantern.

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