She joined Macquarie University in 2007. From 2004 – 2007, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Prior to this, she worked clinically in India, as an Audiologist and Speech Pathologist. Her research centers on speech perception in noise, auditory processing, cortical auditory evoked potentials and auditory plasticity across age span. Dr. M Sharma has investigated the effects of cognition such as attention and statistical learning on listening in populations with listening and hearing disorders.