Magdalena Wojtczak received her Ph.D. in Physics in 1996, from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. While working on her thesis, she received a Cambridge Hospitality Scheme scholarship that allowed her to spend two months working in the Psychoacoustics Lab headed by Professor Brian C. J. Moore at the University of Cambridge. After completing her Ph.D., she received a scholarship from Karolinska Instutute and spent a month working in the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University. A few months later, she came to United States and began her postdoctoral training with Professor Neal F. Viemeister at the University of Minnesota.
Currently, she continues to work as a Research Associate dividing her time between the Psychoacoustics Lab and the Auditory Perception and Cognition Lab. Her main research interests focus on two areas:
- Nonlinearity of the peripheral auditory system.
- Processing of temporal envelopes.
In 2004, she received funding from the NIH (R03 grant) to study the effect of forward masking in the amplitude-modulation domain. In the summer of 2007, she began to serve as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. After having spent eleven years in the United States she has yet to learn the rules of American Football and she remains puzzled over why a game that involves running across the field with an oval-shaped ball under the arm-pit should be called “foot”-ball. She enjoys the traffic-free roads on Super Bowl Sundays.
