Evgenia Vassou

Evgenia Vassou received her degree in Speech and Language Therapy from Patras Technological Educational Institute in 2010.

She has worked as Audiologist in the NHS-Brighton and Sussex University Hospital and in 2020 she obtained her MSc on Audiology and Neurotology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA, Greece). After receiving her MSc, she became a member of the research team in the Otoneurologic Laboratory of the 1st University Department of Otorhinolaryngology (NKUA).

She is participating in one Horizon 2020 research program: UNITI (Unification of Treatments and Interventions for Tinnitus Patients) and she is the leading researcher in one IDA Institute research project (Randomised control trial for the evaluation of the efficacy of IDA “Living Well” online counseling tool in first time adult users with hearing loss).

Research interests:

Psychophysics: Speech and Music Perception, Psychometric testing. Electrophysiologic measures: Auditory Evoked Potentials. Data Acquisition & Systems: Teleaudiology. Rehabilitation: Adult aural rehabilitation programs, Auditory Perception, Communication strategies, Adult tinnitus counseling. Multimedia & systems: Auditory training.

Selected publications:

  1. Speech audiometry with nonsense words-Validity and reliability in patients with sensorineural hearing loss: A literature review (MSc Thesis)
  2. Methodological aspects of randomized controlled trials for tinnitus: a systematic review and how a decision support system could overcome barriers. Authors: Dimitrios Kikidis*, Evgenia Vassou, Winfried Schlee, Eleftheria Iliadou, Nikolaos Markatos, Aikaterini Triantafyllou, Berthold Langguth (submitted)
  3. Effect of hearing aid fitting  in tinnitus perception: a systematic review. Authors: Dr Dimitrios Kikidis*, Evgenia Vassou, Nikolaos Markatos, Dr Eleftheria Iliadou, Dr Winfried Schlee, Dr Steven Marcrum (submitted)