Dirk Mürbe

Dirk Mürbe received his first musical training in violin and viola at the music school in Dresden and was a member of the Radio Music School Orchestra of the former GDR. Parallel to his medical studies at the universities of Rostock, Dublin and Dresden, he studied vocal performance with Helga Köhler-Wellner at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.

After passing the medical state examination, he completed specialist training in phoniatrics and paediatric audiology, as well as in ENT medicine including specialised ENT surgery. Following professorships in phoniatrics and paediatric audiology at the universities of Regensburg and Duisburg-Essen, he was appointed professor with the same specialisation at the Technical University of Dresden in 2010, where he headed the Department of Phoniatrics and Audiology and the Saxony Cochlear Implant Centre Dresden. In 2018, he accepted a W3 professorship for audiology and phoniatrics at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

His clinical work covers the full spectrum of communication disorders, with a particular focus on the surgical and non-surgical treatment of voice disorders, especially in professional singers and actors. As director of one of the most traditional university clinics for voice, speech and hearing disorders, he places special emphasis on the diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss, with particular expertise in music medicine. His research focuses on the morphological and functional characteristics of professional voices, as well as the electrophysiological assessment of hearing and language acquisition.

He is a member of numerous national and international scientific committees, including the board of the German Society for Phoniatrics and Paedaudiology. He served as President of the 8th Pan-European Voice Conference and is currently Secretary General of PEVOC.