Andrew Oxenham received his BMus in Music and Sound Recording from the University of Surrey and spent a year at West German Broadcasting (WDR) in Cologne before embarking on a career in auditory research. He obtained his PhD in 1995 from the University of Cambridge and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Perception Research (IPO) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, before moving to Boston in 1997. After 2 years at Northeastern University and 6 years at MIT, he came to the University of Minnesota, where he is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology.
He is the author of over 80 scientific papers and book chapters. In 2001 he was the recipient of the R. Bruce Linday Award, in 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and in 2009 he received the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences. He has served as associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. After 10 years in the US he has finally learned most of the rules of baseball and enjoys taking his children to games.
