Meet Our Team
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A/Prof Andrew Anderson
Associate Professor | Behavioural investigation of human vision, both in health and disease; Factors affecting decision-making processes in the brain.
aaj@unimelb.edu.au
A/Prof Lauren Ayton
Principal Research Fellow | Research areas include retinal disease, gene therapy, and low vision medical devices (bionic eyes, sensory substitution). Also research translation and commercialisation, as Director of SPARK Melbourne.
layton@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Phillip Bedggood
Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Research areas include cellular-resolution imaging of the eye to understand the earliest stages of vision and the supply of nutrients to tissue. Also technological developments in optical imaging and image processing.
pabedg@unimelb.edu.au
A/Prof Bang Bui
Assoc. Professor | Research areas include preclinical investigation of vision and the retinal vasculature in healthy ageing; mechanisms of age-related susceptibility to neurodegeneration.
bvb@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Ceecee Britten-Jones
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Optometrist | Research interests include inherited retinal diseases, ocular imaging, gene therapy trials, and evidence synthesis.
ac.brittenjones@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Kwang Cham
Senior Lecturer | Research areas include digital technologies for feedback and assessment, inter-professional education, and inter-disciplinary object-based learning engaging with material culture.
ckwang@unimelb.edu.au
Janet Chan
Postdoctoral Researcher | Research areas include healthy ageing, migraine, magnetic resonance spectroscopy and visual snow.
yu.chan@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Holly Chinnery
Senior Lecturer | Research areas include corneal neuroimmunology, neuropathology in corneal injury and disease, ocular surface immune cells in homeostasis and nerve regeneration.
holly.chinnery@unimelb.edu.au
A/Prof Anthea Cochrane
Assoc. Professor, Teaching Specialist, 3rd, 4th year OD and Placement Coordinator | Research: low vision, clinical training and assessment, failure to fail, training educators.
antheac@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Marianne Coleman
Orthoptist, Clinical Vision Research Fellow | Research areas include Digital Health, Childrens Vision, Public Eye Health, Eyecare across the Lifespan, Binocular Vision.
marianne.coleman@unimelb.edu.au
A/Prof Laura Downie
Associate Professor and Dame Kate Campbell Fellow | Research areas include ocular diagnostics and therapeutics, tear biomarkers, clinical trials and research translation.
ldownie@unimelb.edu.au
Anh Hoang
Resesarch Assistant | Research areas include retinal structure-function relationship in various preclinical models and ocular biomarkers for Parkinson and Alzheimers disease.
anh.hoang@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Andrew Huhtanen
Clinic Director, Melbourne Eyecare Clinic | Research areas include anterior ocular disease and advanced contact lenses, clinical training and assessment, and evidence-based practice.
andrew.huhtanen@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Flora Hui
Research Fellow (Industry Engagement) and Optometrist | Research areas include neurodegeneration, diagnostics and therapies, research translation, improving health services.
huif@unimelb.edu.au
Senuri Karunaratne
Clinical Research Optometrist | Research areas include management of dry eye disease, childhood myopia and developement of myopia control devices.
senuri.karunaratne@unimelb.edu.au
Anna Lee
Senior Clinical Research Optometrist | Research areas include anterior ocular disease, therapeutic clinical trials and research translation.
ji-hyun.lee@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Jia Jia Lek
Lecturer (Teaching Specialist) | Research interest areas: Educational research including interprofessional education, cultural competency, student engagement and wellbeing.
jjlek@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Ekaterina Levichkina
Research Fellow | Research areas include Neural mechanisms of visual attention and predictive coding; visual perception; sleep research.
ele@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Virginia Liu
Research Fellow | Translational, technolgoical developments and clinical assessment of the visual neural system.
ping.liu@unimelb.edu.au
Prof Allison McKendrick
Professor | Research areas include improving the understanding and clinical assessment of visual disorder of the eye and brain (specific interests in glaucoma, migraine, and ageing).
allisonm@unimelb.edu.au
A/Prof Andrew Metha
Assoc. Professor | Research areas include cellular-resolution imaging of the retina to investigate the essential structure-function relationships required for vision and how this is supported by vascular and neural processes.
ametha@unimelb.edu.au
Ms Christine Nearchou
Senior Lecturer. Teaching specialist, Clinical leader of paediatrics, binocular vision | Research: paediatric eye health and vision, visual development, learning in children.
nearchou@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Bao Nguyen
Lecturer, optometrist and human visual neuroscientist | Research areas include understanding eye and brain changes with healthy and pathological ageing, childhood and adolescent development, vision anomalies in ophthalmic and neurological disorders.
bnguyen@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Christine Nguyen
Senior Lecturer and Optometric Clinician | Research areas using the eye as a marker for brain disease (specific interests in Parkinsons and Alzheimers disease) in preclinical and clinical space.
christine.nguyen@unimelb.edu.au
A/Prof Michael Pianta
Associate Professor, 4th year OD Coordinator | Evidence-based practice.
mjp@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Sumeer Singh
Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow | Research areas include dry eye disease, blue light and ocular health, evidence synthesis and translational research.
sumeer.singh@unimelb.edu.au
Prof Trichur Vidyasagar
Professor | Research areas include neural basis of visual perception, attention and predictive coding, disorders of communication across the brain and dyslexia.
trv@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Vickie Wong
Research Fellow | Research areas include understanding ocular changes in neurodegenerative diseases (e.g. Parkinson's, Diabetes and Glaucoma), and using ocular biomarkers to test drug efficacy and monitoring.
vickie.wong@unimelb.edu.au