The award of the Spanish Society of Graduates in Audiology recognizes the vocation, excellence and professional career of the director of the Unit of Acoustic and Hearing Evaluation of the USAL, member of INCYL and IBSAL.
Enrique A. López Poveda, Professor of Otorhinolaryngology and Director of the Acoustic and Hearing Evaluation Unit of the University of Salamanca, has been awarded the II Enrique Salesa Batlle National Award in Audiology, sponsored by the Spanish Society of Graduates in Audiology (SEGRAUD) in recognition of professional career, excellence and contribution to audiology and endowed, thanks to the Salesa Cabo Foundation, with 1,200 €.
López Poveda, who is also a member of the Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León (INCYL) and the Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), received the award during the celebration last Friday, November 15, in Madrid, of the II Conference of Audiology, which brought together the most prominent national professionals in the sector to discuss the progress and current challenges of the specialty.
Thus, the jury of the Award, formed by Sheila Templado and Marta Herrero, from the SEGRAUD board of directors; Pedro Salesa and José Juan Barajas de Prat, from the Pedro Salesa Cabo Foundation; and José Luis Blanco and Franz Zenker, representing SEGRAUD members, unanimously decided to grant the recognition to the scientist of the University of Salamanca for “his vocation, for his excellence and professional career, and for his dedication to science and audiology. For representing all the values that Mr. Enrique Salesa transmitted to us and that we want to perpetuate in his memory through this award”.
Track record and awards
Enrique A. López Poveda has a brilliant and extensive international career in science and teaching. Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Salamanca, he is director of the Computational Hearing and Psychoacoustics research group of the Institute of Neurosciences of Castilla y León (INCYL), and of the Audiology group of the Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL). He founded and directed for 17 years (2006-2023) the Specialization Diploma in Audiology at the University of Salamanca and is the promoter of the new University Degree in General Audiology at USAL, which has just started to be taught in the academic year 2024-25.
Degree in Physics (1993) from the University of Salamanca and PhD in Hearing Sciences (1996) from the University of Loughborough (UK), he has been associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (1998-2003) and researcher of the Ramón y Cajal Program (2003-2008) at the University of Salamanca. As well as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Essex (1996) and visiting scientist at the Universities of Minnesota (2010) and Duke (2014).
López Poveda has directed more than 20 scientific research projects funded by public agencies, companies and Spanish and foreign foundations. He has given more than 100 conferences, invited to four continents and participated in more than 200 communications at international congresses.
Author of three books, three patents and more than 100 scientific articles or book chapters on audiology and hearing sciences, he is also evaluator of articles and research projects for multiple Spanish and foreign scientific journals and institutions. He is (or has been) associate editor of scientific journals such as Ear and Hearing, Trends in Hearing, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology or The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
In addition, he is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, the Spanish Society of Otolaryngology, and the Spanish Association of Audiology. In addition to Fellow-elect of the American Acoustical Society (2015), the International College of Rehabilitative Audiologists (ICRA, 2015), and the Institute for Advanced Study at Loughborough University (2019).
He has also been awarded the Naval Merit Cross Medal (1999), the Salamanca Convention Bureau Ambassadors Award (2013), the Alumni Award of the University of Salamanca (2013), the Medical Award of the Federation of Associations of Cochlear Implant Patients of Spain (2022) and the María de Maeztu Award for Scientific Excellence (2023) of the University of Salamanca.
Source: USAL Press Room
