# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ingeborg-hochmair
# Generated: 2026-09-01T20:18:08.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ingeborg-hochmair"
name: "Ingeborg Hochmair"
slug: "ingeborg-hochmair"
description: "Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer is an Austrian electrical engineer and the CEO and CTO of hearing implant company MED-EL. Dr Hochmair and her husband Prof. Erwin Hochmair co-created the first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant in the world. She received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for her contributions towards the development of the modern cochlear implant. She also received the 2015 Russ Prize for bioengineering."
tagline: "Austrian electrical engineer"
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country:
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birthDate: "1953-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump