Samantha Hauser, Au.D.

Graduate Student Researcher

Samantha is from Las Vegas, Nevada, but she has lived in many different corners of the US for school. After graduating with a degree in biology from the University of Chicago in 2013, she entered the world of clinical audiology. She was introduced to hearing research through an NIH T35 traineeship during her AuD program. Working with Dr. Ram Ramachandran, she studied the neural correlates of tone detection in noise and the effects of acoustic overexposure on nonhuman primates. Sam received her Doctor of Audiology (AuD) from Vanderbilt University in 2018 after completing her 4th year externship at Yale University’s Hearing and Balance Center. She remained in Connecticut following graduation and worked for three years as a clinical audiologist at Easterseals’ Center for Better Hearing. Sam joined the Speech, Language, and Hearing Science PhD program at Purdue in the fall of 2021 and is working with both Dr. Michael Heinz and Dr. Hari Bharadwaj. She is currently funded by an NIDCD F32 Fellowship for AuD audiologists. Her project entitled Individualized Profiles of Sensorineural Hearing Loss from Non-Invasive Biomarkers of Peripheral Pathology leverages the successful cross-species experimental infrastructure in the Heinz and Bharadwaj labs. Her work uses physiological measures to identify subtypes of SNHL which can be used to refine and develop personalized treatment strategies for hearing loss. When not in the lab, Sam enjoys starting and rarely finishing new crafts, riding her Peloton bike, watching Criminal Minds, and listening to music.