Griet Mertens holds a position as professor at the Antwerp University and is coordinating the clinical audiology research program at the ENT department of the Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) in Belgium. She is coordinating multi-centre studies on cognitive auditory sciences whithin the HEARRING group, an international network of 30 preeminent centers offering comprehensive hearing implant solutions for the treatment of hearing loss. The area of her expertise broadly concerns fitting and testing of implantable hearing aids, clinical audiology, measuring hearing outcomes, hearing and vestibular preservation, single-sided deafness, cognitive aging and supervising student projects.