Current Students

Current Students

  • Destaye Alemu

    PhD: Impact of diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy on driving difficulties, performance, and safety

  • Aniruddha Banerjee

    PhD: In vivo topographical mapping of melanopsin ganglion cell function in the human retina

  • Sameer Bhaila

    PhD: Melanopsin-directed white noise electroretinogram and visually evoked potential in glaucoma

  • Shashank Bhandary

    PhD: Using objective methods to understand the effects of near activities on myopia-genic visual environmental factors

  • Hira Dahal

    PhD: Investigating melanopsin-rod interactions in human vision

  • Zainab Danesh

    PhD: Modelling and characterisation of corneal subbasal immune cell dynamics: establishing a normative database and topographical comparisons

  • Azam Darvishi

    PhD: The effects of different aspects of light exposure on the choroidal characteristics of the human eye

  • Soraya Ghaderi

    PhD: Age-related macular degeneration and night driving

  • Satish Gupta

    PhD: The influence of scleral contact lens parameters and lens fitting characteristics upon higher-order aberrations

  • Parash Gyawali

    PhD: The influence of melanopsin stimulation on the light and dark adaptation of rod and cone photoreception

  • Samaneh Hashemi Kateh Sari

    PhD: Blood flow characterization using ocular optical coherence tomography

  • Mahdi Heravian Shandiz

    PhD: Developing deep learning image analysis methods for mobile eye tracking

  • Mark Hoffmann

    PhD: The ocular surface in chronic pain: an investigation of whiplash-associated disorder

  • Asif Iqbal

    PhD: Tear exchange and scleral lens wear

  • Ishwarya Kumar

    PhD: Association of ultraviolet spectrum disorders in the skin and the anterior ocular structures

  • Rachel Kwok

    PhD: Implementation and evaluation of a teleoptometry service in a university clinic

  • Julie Lee

    PhD: Genetics-environment interactions: links to accommodation apparatus and myopia risk

  • Memona Mohi Ud Din

    PhD: Inflammatory cells in ocular surface disease and it’s treatment

  • Ramya Natarajan

    PhD: Crystalline lens characteristics of pre-myopic children

  • Candice Pearson

    PhD: Improving patient experience associated with diagnostic cycloplegia

  • Divya Sree

    PhD: The relationship between corneal nerves and immune cell morphology and dynamics in health and neural disease

  • Rinkal Suwal

    PhD: False negative responses in pre-school visual acuity measurements

  • Prajna Vidyasagar

    PhD: Corneal micro-neuromas and axonal swelling in diabetic neuropathy; relationship to symptoms of pain

 

Considering a research degree?

Develop new skills, deepen your knowledge, contribute to the evidence base and work with internationally-recognised experts.

  • MPhil (18 months full-time)
  • PhD (3 years full-time)

QUT Scholarships are available each year.

Find out more at qut.edu.au/research/annual-scholarship-round

Our research focuses on a number of key areas in optometry and vision science, with internationally recognised research programs:

    • Myopia and its prevention and control
    • Contact lenses
    • Optics of the eye and imaging
    • Advanced methods for imaging the eye
    • Anterior eye assessment and treatment
    • Novel methods for the early detection and management of eye disease
    • Melanopsin photoreception and visual science
    • Ocular cell biology
    • Ocular biomarkers of systemic disease
    • Vision and everyday function
    • Vision and driving
    • Indigenous eye health
    • Eye health services evaluation
    • Children’s vision