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Experts in Optometry and neuroscience

Professor Brendan Barrett

Professor of Visual Development

Expertise: Amblyopia, vision and sport, vision and reading

Optometry and neuroscience

Professor David Elliott

Professor of Clinical Vision Science

Expertise: Clinical vision science

Optometry and neuroscience

Professor Declan McKeefry

Professor of Visual Neuroscience

Expertise: Visual Neuroscience, colour perception, colour vision deficiencies (colour blindness)

Optometry and neuroscience

Professor Edward Mallen

Head of Bradford School of Optometry and Vision Science

Expertise: refractive error, accommodation control, neural adaptation to blur, adaptive optics

Optometry and neuroscience

Professor Rachel Pilling

Professor of Opthalmology

Expertise: Opthalmology, learning disability eyecare

Optometry and neuroscience

Dr Gisela Helfer

Associate Professor in Physiology and Metabolism at University of Bradford

Expertise: Body clocks, circadian rhythms in vertebrates (chronobiology), impact of bi-annual clocks change, circadian rhythm of naked mole rats, hippocampal formation of migratory birds

Biomedical science, Cancer, DNA research and pharmacology, Optometry and neuroscience