Hochmair-Desoyer (born 1953) is an Austrian electrical engineer from Technical University of Vienna.
She helped create the first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant in the world with her husband Prof.
Erwin Hochmair.
In 1980 she co-founded together with Prof.
Erwin Hochmair the medical device company MED-EL and serves as its CEO and CTO.
In 2013, she was honored together with two more scientists with the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for developing the modern cochlear implant.