Mridula Sharma

Professor Mridula Sharma is an academic and researcher at Macquarie University, serving as Director of the Masters of Clinical Audiology course in the Department of Linguistics. She joined Macquarie University in 2007 following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Auckland (2004–2007) and clinical work in India as an Audiologist and Speech Pathologist. Her research focuses on speech perception in noise, auditory processing, cortical auditory evoked potentials, and auditory plasticity across the lifespan, with particular interest in cognitive factors like attention and statistical learning affecting listening in hearing-impaired populations.

She is affiliated with multiple research centers including the Centre for Reading, Centre for Atypical Neurodevelopment, Hearing CRC, Centre for Language Sciences (CLaS), and Hearing Research Centre. Her work spans collaborative projects like the Macquarie University Centre for Implementation of Hearing Research and studies on early childhood language programs in Indigenous communities.

Recent research emphasizes translational applications in audiology, such as developing assessment tools for infants with hearing loss and investigating environmental noise impacts in early childhood classrooms. She has supervised students in auditory processing disorders and evoked potentials, contributing 81 peer-reviewed publications and 26 research projects since 2002.