Keynote speakers

David Burr

Professor Emeritus of Physiological Psychology, University of Florence

Motion perception, Numerosity perception, Visual stability, Spatiotopicity, Perception of time, Multi-sensory perception, Autism

David Burr is a world-class leader in visual neuroscience. His wide-reaching, multi-disciplinary research is both rigorous and innovative, and has strongly influenced the field. For most of his career he has worked on human vision, although he has more recently ventured into touch, audition, multi-sensory research and perceptual decision-making. His research approach is fundamentally multidisciplinary, embracing classical psychophysics, animal electrophysiology, human physiology –including evoked potentials,functional imagingand clinical studies –and computational modelling. He has made major contributions to most areas in sensory neuroscience, including the perception of space, time, motion, eye-movements, colour, and number –and their development.

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Laura Young

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University

Laura Young's research develops and uses ophthalmic imaging systems to study the retina and visual system, with adaptive optics technology being at the core of her work. Passionate about interdisciplinary research, she made significant contributions at the interplay between the development of new optical and imaging techniques and the generation of new understanding in the life sciences. Her team's projects span instrument development and applications in neuroscience and ophthalmology. Current projects include the use of cellular resolution retinal imaging (AOSLO) for eye tracking to study oculomotor control in patients with Parkinson's disease, photoreceptor mosaic imaging for investigating early biomarkers of retinal degeneration, and development of software and algorithms for AOSLO data analysis.

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Pablo Artal

Professor of Optics at the University of Murcia, Spain

optics of eye, retina, visual resolution, optical design, ophtalmology

Pablo Artal’s research interests are the optics of eye and the retina and the development of optical and electronic imaging techniques to be applied in Vision, Ophthalmology and Biomedicine. He has pioneered a number of highly innovative and significant advances in the methods for studying the optics of the eye and has contributed substantially to our understanding of the factors that limit human visual resolution. In addition, several of his results and ideas in the area of ophthalmic instrumentation over the last years have been introduced in instruments and devices currently in use in Vision and Ophthalmology.