Profile

My work has several different strands. My main work is developing a device that measure how well people adapt to a dark environment. This work will tell us lots about the health of the eye before there is any loss of sight. It will also help in the development of treatments for age related eye disease. This work includes a clinical trial to evaluate the device we are developing and this means quite a lot of paperwork and meetings. I will be recruiting participants for this study in two months (fingers crossed).

I also investigate other aspects of vision. I have worked on how well people see when they are dazzled, and have made mathematical models of how changing a light alters how we perceive a colour under that light.  I have created software to analyse the flow of tears under contact lenses, the flow of liquids/tears over a contact lens and the interaction between the surface of a contact lens and the air.

My MSc project was concerned with the production and sequence of proteins used as the eye heals following surgery.

After an initial meeting I usually attend to those things highlighted in the meeting. The things I usually do are as follows

writing

a new paper or a review of one that we have submitted
the documentation so that we can get ethical approval for any experiments we carry out on people
reports to funding bodies or industrial collaborators
presentation or lecture

admin

finance – time sheets
purchasing – equipment

obtain regulator permission to use devices we build in human experiments
recruit subjects
perform experiments
think of experiments

build the apparatus
write software to control the new apparatus
write software to analyse data I have collected

drink tea