Research
Eleven and a half years of vision science, most of it spent on a question the field had never systematically answered: what happens to the optics of the eye when you stop looking straight ahead — and does correcting it help anyone see better?
Peripheral optics
The first systematic mapping of monochromatic aberrations across the peripheral visual field, and how accommodation, myopia, ageing, orthokeratology, laser surgery and intraocular lenses reshape them.
Visual performance
Acuity and contrast sensitivity under defocus, astigmatic blur and adaptive-optics correction — connecting optical measurement to what someone can genuinely see.
Lens design
An ARC Linkage programme with Carl Zeiss Vision testing whether correcting peripheral refractive error improves real visual performance, delivered as publications and confidential industry reports.
Ocular biometry & disease
Partial coherence interferometry methods for estimating retinal shape, and the effects of type 1 diabetes on biometry, straylight, lens yellowing and accommodation.
Output
Peer-reviewed, in journals including Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Optometry and Vision Science, Journal of Vision, Optics Express and Optics Letters.
Proceedings and abstracts across ARVO, the American Academy of Optometry, the International Myopia Conference and the European Meetings on Visual and Physiological Optics.
Delivered across Australia, the USA, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Canada and Greece.
Confidential technical reports delivered to Carl Zeiss Vision under the ARC Linkage programme.
Funding
One external Australian Research Council Linkage grant and five internal QUT grants, plus competitive international travel funding.
Awards
Scholarships
Collaboration
Research partners in Australia, England, the USA, Spain, Ireland, Belgium and Germany, spanning universities, hospitals and industry.
Peer review
In optometry, ophthalmology and optics.
Supervision
One co-supervised and three mentored, all at IHBI / School of Optometry, QUT.
Fourth-year optometry research groups of 4–5 students each, across 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Practical and clinical technique groups; up to 60 for lecture-based Visual Optics in India.