Advisory Board and Editors Ophthalmology
Susana Martinez-Conde
Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Physiology at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center. Founding Member and President of the Neural Correlate Society and Executive Producer of the annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest. Former Executive Board Member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Advisory Board Member and Columnist for Scientific American Mind.
Beatriz Redondo
Beatriz Redondo is an assistant professor in the Department of Optics at the University of Granada, Spain. She holds a PhD in Optometry and Vision Sciences, with international research experience at the University of Bradford (UK) and the New England College of Optometry (USA). Her research focuses on visual function and performance under experimental and clinical conditions, with particular interest in digital eye strain, dry eye disease, and myopia progression. She has authored over 80 peer-reviewed articles, with an H-index of 20 and more than 1000 citations. Beatriz has led and participated in several national and international research projects and maintains active collaborations with industry and healthcare institutions. She is committed to interdisciplinary research, scientific outreach, and mentoring early-career researchers.
Susanne Schmid
Susanne Schmid is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on sensory information processing and sensory gating mechanisms. She uses mainly rodents to explore synaptic mechanisms and neuronal circuits underlying sensory gating in healthy subjects and in animal models for schizophrenia and autism.
Florian Sennlaub
Senior staff researcher at the French National Institute of Health Research (Inserm). Head of the therapeutics department and director of the research team "Inflammation, degeneration and vascular remodelling in retinal disease" at the Vision Institute in Paris. Recipient of a ERC starting grant.
Alfred Sommer
Dean Emeritus & University Distinguished Service Professor of Epidemiology & International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Awards include the Danone International Prize for Nutrition; the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award; the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize, & the Duke Elder International Gold Medal. Past President of the Association of Schools of Public, the 19th Chair of the Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, & the Chairman of the Lasker Foundation
Jesus Vera
Professor of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of Granada, Spain.
Most of my research is focused on the effects of physical activity on the health status, mainly for the prevention and management of different cardiovascular and ocular
diseases. Currently researching Optometry, Sports Medicine, Sport Psychology and Neuropsychology.