Zino Wellauer

LIFE Fellow since 2026, University of Zurich

I am a doctoral candidate in the Evolutionary Neuroscience of Language Lab at the University of Zurich's Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution. 

My research sits at the intersection of auditory neuroscience and acoustics, focusing on speech perception and true spatial audio, and investigating how these factors influence speech comprehension in real-world listening environments.

I gave up my part-time job in neurorehabilitation and neuromodulation to devote more time to improving treatments and quality of life for people with auditory processing disorders. Outside the lab, my background in music and sound synthesis directly informs how I think about and study sound(s).