Martin Kompis is professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and head of audiology at the ENT-Departement of the Inselspital (university hospital) in Bern. He has received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1993, and his Medical degree (M.D.) from the University in Zurich in 1995. After a post-doc at Purdue University, Indiana (U.S.A.) he has become head of audiology at the department of otolaryngology at the University Hospital of Bern, where he has been working since 1997. He has published more than 100 scientific peer-reviewed papers and several books, including a standard text book on audiology in German and Italian.