Dr Ingeborg Hochmair

Ingeborg has published over 100 specialist papers and is recorded as the inventor or co-inventor of over 50 patents and patent applications. She has been awarded a number of prizes for her scientific achievements, including the Holzer Award (1979), the Leonardo da Vinci Award (1980) and the Sandoz Award (1984). In 1995, she won the Business Woman of the Year Award (Prix Veuve Clicquot) and, the following year, was awarded the Wilhelm Exner Medal.

In 2013, Ingeborg Hochmair was awarded the prestigious Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for her role in the development of the modern cochlear implant. For these achievements she was also honoured with the Fritz J. und Dolores H. Russ Prize in 2015 and the Technology Prize of the Eduard Rhein Foundation in 2016, both of which she received together with her husband.

In 2023, Ingeborg and her husband were each awarded the prestigious IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for the research and development of cochlear implants, honoring their exceptional contribution to communications and networking sciences and engineering.

Ingeborg Hochmair has also been awarded honorary doctorates from:

- Munich University of Technology, Faculty of Medicine (2004)
- University of Innsbruck, Faculty of Medicine (2010)
- University of Bern, Faculty of Medicine (2018)
- Uppsala University, Faculty of Medicine (2020)
- University of Innsbruck, Faculty of Natural Sciences (2021)
- University of Liège, Faculty of Medicine (2022)

Ingeborg and her husband have four children and live near Innsbruck.