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Josefine Andin is a Senior Associate Professor at Linköping University, affiliated with the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning and the Disability Research Division (FUSA). Her research focuses on neuroscience, disability research, and cognitive hearing science, particularly investigating how the brain processes cognitively demanding tasks in individuals with hearing loss and deafness. She collaborates across disciplines, including speech and language pathology, audiology, and engineering. Her work emphasizes the biopsychosocial model of disability, exploring how environmental factors interact with biological and psychological aspects of impairment.
Dr. Andin’s research is organized into three core areas: cognition under challenging conditions (e.g., working memory and noise effects), mathematics in the signing brain (comparing deaf and hearing populations via neuroimaging), and hearing loss’s impact on emotions and workplace participation. She actively supervises PhD students in projects like Cristina Tobías’ work on working memory and noise, Isabella Ström’s study on auditory noise and children’s learning, and Agnes Andersson’s investigation of mental fatigue.
In teaching, she emphasizes problem-based learning and critical thinking, designing courses in disability research, neuroscience, and quantitative methods. She currently manages courses such as Disability Research 2 and Cognitive Psychology 2. Her educational roles include Director of Studies for disability research courses and membership on faculty curriculum boards.
Key collaborations include the Swedish Institute for Disability Research and the Linnaeus Centre HEAD. Recent publications highlight neuroimaging studies on deaf signers’ brain structures (e.g., superior parietal lobule in geometry processing) and acoustic emotion recognition in speech. Her work bridges interdisciplinary gaps, aiming to improve accessibility and cognitive understanding across diverse populations.
