Jeong-seo Kim AuD

Jeong-Seo is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She was a speech pathologist in Korea and moved to Kansas in 2012 where she earned a clinical doctorate in Audiology. She moved to Iowa in the Fall of 2016 to begin working on her Ph.D. with Professors Abbas and Brown. Her research interests involve exploring novel ways to use electrophysiological measures to characterize the status of the auditory periphery, help with differential diagnosis, and predict the performance of cochlear implant users. Besides work and study, she is an avid coffee drinker, loves mountain hiking, and occasionally daydreams about relaxing and sipping a good coffee on her journey to Patagonia and Scandinavia to see the northern lights.