Outgoing Editor-in-Chief

Stig D. Arlinger received a Master of Science degree in electric engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, 1962 and a second Master’s degree in Biomedical Electronic Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, 1964. He received the degree Dr.med.sc. in audiology from Linköping University, Sweden 1976.

After brief work in the general biomedical engineering field, Stig Arlinger started in audiology at the Linköping University Hospital clinic 1966. Since 1976 he has also held the position of associate professor and since 1991 adjunct professor in technical audiology at Linköping University.

Dr Arlinger has been the leader of a small but active research group since 1971. the research was originally primarily in the area of diagnostic methods, in particular electrophysiological techniques. Noise-induced hearing loss and hearing protection has also been in focus. During the last decade modern hearing aid technology has been the main area of research, concerning digital signal processing as well as methods for fitting non-linear hearing aids and methods to assess the outcome. The research work has produced close to 200 reports in scientific journals as well as other publications.

Stig Arlinger has been involved in International standardisation since 1976 as a Swedish delegate in IEC/TC29 concerning equipment for audiometry and in ISO/TC43 concerning audiometry and hearing protectors. In the European standardisation work he is presently chairman of CEN/TC159 Hearing protectors.

Dr Arlinger was the first chairman of the European Federation of Audiology Societies, EFAS from its beginning 1992 until 1997, and is the chairman of the scientific committee of the International Society of Audiology.

On the Nordic level Stig Arlinger was the chief editor of Scandinavian Audiology 1977-1983, and has during several years been active in the board of the Nordic Audiological Society as well as chairman of the Swedish Society for Technical Audiology.

Dr. Arlinger served as the first Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Audiology for the period 2002-2003.