Our People
Biography
Jan Schnupp graduated from University College London with a Bachelor in Genetics in 1990 and obtained a doctorate in Neurophysiology from the University of Oxford in 1996 and a bachelor in mathematical sciences from the Open University in 2006. He was a junior research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and a visiting research fellow at the University of Wisconsin at Madison before joining the faculty of the University of Oxford in 2002, where he was promoted to Professor in 2010. In 2016, Jan joined the faculty of City University of Hong Kong, and in 2024 he joined the GCNI at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In his long career he co-authored over 100 peer reviewed publications as well as a leading textbook in auditory neuroscience.
Jan SCHNUPP
Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences &
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head, and Neck Surgery
Research Interests
- Binaural Hearing in Animal Models for Cochlear Implantation
- Neural mechanisms of auditory perception and predictive coding
- Sensory plasticity and adaptation to the auditory environment
Awards
- 2022: 2nd place, poster award at the German Society for Audiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Audiologie)) meeting in Erfurt
- 2023: 1st place, Promoting Medical Technology Prize (experimental category), Meeting of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Leipzig, Germany
- 2024: 1st place, Promoting Medical Technology Prize (experimental category), Meeting of the German Society of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Essen, Germany
Selected publications
- Fei Peng, Jennifer Bizley, Ryszard Auksztulewicz, Jan W. H. Schnupp. (2023) Dissociable neural correlates of multisensory coherence and selective attention. J Neurosci
- Drew Cappotto, HiJee Kang, Kongyan Li, Lucia Melloni, Jan Schnupp*, Ryszard Auksztulewicz*. (2022) Simultaneous Mnemonic and Predictive Representations in the Auditory Cortex, Current Biology(32:11) (* co-corresponding authors)
- Rosskothen-Kuhl, N., Buck, A. N., Li, K., & Schnupp, J. W. Microsecond Interaural Time Difference Discrimination Restored by Cochlear Implants After Neonatal Deafness, Published Jan 2021, ELife, 498105;
- Fei Peng, Jennifer Bizley, Ryszard Auksztulewicz, Jan W. H. Schnupp. (2023) Dissociable neural correlates of multisensory coherence and selective attention. J Neurosci
- R Auksztulewicz, V Rajendran, F Peng, J Schnupp, Nicol Harper (2023) Omission responses in local field potentials in rat auditory cortex. BMC Biol.
