Contacts

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Tear film and ocular surface
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)

Applied Studies

• Contact lens
• Dry eye
• Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)
• Subjective clinical vision test development (e.g. pediatric vision, at-home test, dynamic acuity tests)
• Ophthalmic optics (e.g. contact lens, intraocular lens, spectacles, ocular aberration correction)

Societal Impact

• Education / knowledge mobilisation (e.g. public, optometric, interprofessional)
• Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)
• Equitable access to care (e.g. government policy, public health systems)
• Tele-optometry / imaging / AI

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments:

Chemical Engineering

Biology

Chemistry

Physics and Astronomy

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences

• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Tear film and ocular surface
• Drug delivery
• Biomaterials research
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)

Applied Studies

• Contact lens
• Dry eye
• Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)
• Ophthalmic optics (e.g. contact lens, intraocular lens, spectacles, ocular aberration correction)

Societal Impact

• Tele-optometry / imaging / AI

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments:

Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE)

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences:

• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Optical system development (e.g. imaging, displays, diagnostics)
• Posterior segment (e.g. retina, vasculature, choroid etc)
• Tear film and ocular surface
• Stem cells
• Spatial vision
• Computational Vision/Neuroscience
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)

Applied Studies:

• Dry eye
• Contact lens
• Myopia
• Presbyopia
• Subjective clinical vision test development (e.g. pediatric vision, at-home test, dynamic acuity tests)
• Ophthalmic optics (e.g. contact lens, intraocular lens, spectacles, ocular aberration correction)
• Amblyopia
• Artificial intelligence for disease detection
• Objective clinical vision test development (e.g. VEP, ERG, MRI)

Societal Impact:

• Education / knowledge mobilisation (e.g. public, optometric, interprofessional)
• Quality of life (e.g. clinical care, service provision)
• Equitable access to care (e.g. government policy, public health systems)
• Tele-optometry / imaging / AI

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments

Physics and Astronomy

Lab

Roorda Lab

WEI VSC Pillars

Fundamental Sciences

• Posterior segment (e.g. retina, vasculature, choroid etc.)
• Neuroscience/Neurophysiology
• Optical system development (e.g. imaging, displays, diagnostics)
• Eye movements and active vision
• Binocular vision
• Plasticity
• Colour vision
• Spatial vision

Applied Studies

• Myopia
• Ophthalmic optics (e.g. contact lens, intraocular lens, spectacles, ocular aberration correction)
• Augmented and virtual reality
• Presbyopia
• Objective clinical vision test development (e.g. VEP, ERG, MRI)
• Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)

Other Affiliations or Cross-Appointed Departments:

Centre for Ocular Research & Education (CORE)

WEI VSC Pillars:

Fundamental Sciences:

• Tear film and ocular surface
• Posterior segment (e.g. retina, vasculature, choroid etc)
• Anterior segment (e.g. cornea, lens, pupil, trabecular meshwork)
• Disease detection (e.g. new devices, diagnostics)

Applied Studies:

• Contact lens
• Dry eye
• Myopia
• Presbyopia
• Pediatric vision
• Human clinical trials (e.g. myopia control, vision rehabilitation, behavioural interventions, amblyopia correction)
• Ophthalmic optics (e.g. contact lens, intraocular lens, spectacles, ocular aberration correction)

Societal Impact:

• Education / knowledge mobilisation (e.g. public, optometric, interprofessional)