Biography

M. Charles Liberman, PhD, has been on the faculty at Harvard since 1979 and has published more than 180 papers on a variety of topics in auditory neuroscience. Dr. Liberman's research interests include:

1. The coding of acoustic stimuli as neural responses in the auditory periphery
2. Efferent feedback control of the auditory periphery
3. The mechanisms underlying noise-induced and age-related hearing loss
4. The signaling pathways mediating nerve survival in the inner ear
5. The application of cell- and drug-based therapies to the repair of a damaged inner ear

His work uses a variety of approaches from systems neuroscience to cell and molecular biology.