2021 - present: Associate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science

2017 - 2021: Lecturer in Optometry

2016 - 2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2013 - 2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2008 - 2013: PhD, Department of Vision Science, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2005 - 2008: BSc Optometry, University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck, Germany

2001 - 2005: Medical School, University of Lübeck, Germany

Elected committee member of the Applied Vision Association (AVA)

BSc Optometry & MOptom Optometry

2017 - present: Visual Perception (OPT404, module lead)

2023 - present: Human Anatomy and Physiology (OPT407)

MSc School of Health Professions

2021 - present: Applying Evidence to Practice (ADV702, module lead)

2020 - present: Rehabilitation, Cognition, Perception & Behaviour (ADV739) - Visual Perception 

2020 - present: Applied Quantitive Research Methods (MCR702) - Applied nonparametric statistics, Data processing and graphical display for complex datasets

Research interests:

see Lab Website

1. Contour - and curvature encoding and shape perception
2. Spatial summation, probability summation and signal detection theory
3. Peripheral vision
4. Face perception and emotions
5. Visual function of patients with traumatic brain injury and stroke
6. Glaucoma and intraocular pressure