Current Students
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Destaye Alemu
PhD: Impact of diabetic retinopathy and neuropathy on driving difficulties, performance, and safety
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Aniruddha Banerjee
PhD: In vivo topographical mapping of melanopsin ganglion cell function in the human retina
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Sameer Bhaila
PhD: Melanopsin-directed white noise electroretinogram and visually evoked potential in glaucoma
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Shashank Bhandary
PhD: Using objective methods to understand the effects of near activities on myopia-genic visual environmental factors
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Hira Dahal
PhD: Investigating melanopsin-rod interactions in human vision
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Zainab Danesh
PhD: Modelling and characterisation of corneal subbasal immune cell dynamics: establishing a normative database and topographical comparisons
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Azam Darvishi
PhD: The effects of different aspects of light exposure on the choroidal characteristics of the human eye
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Soraya Ghaderi
PhD: Age-related macular degeneration and night driving
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Satish Gupta
PhD: The influence of scleral contact lens parameters and lens fitting characteristics upon higher-order aberrations
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Parash Gyawali
PhD: The influence of melanopsin stimulation on the light and dark adaptation of rod and cone photoreception
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Samaneh Hashemi Kateh Sari
PhD: Blood flow characterization using ocular optical coherence tomography
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Mahdi Heravian Shandiz
PhD: Developing deep learning image analysis methods for mobile eye tracking
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Mark Hoffmann
PhD: The ocular surface in chronic pain: an investigation of whiplash-associated disorder
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Asif Iqbal
PhD: Tear exchange and scleral lens wear
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Ishwarya Kumar
PhD: Association of ultraviolet spectrum disorders in the skin and the anterior ocular structures
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Rachel Kwok
PhD: Implementation and evaluation of a teleoptometry service in a university clinic
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Julie Lee
PhD: Genetics-environment interactions: links to accommodation apparatus and myopia risk
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Memona Mohi Ud Din
PhD: Inflammatory cells in ocular surface disease and it’s treatment
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Ramya Natarajan
PhD: Crystalline lens characteristics of pre-myopic children
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Candice Pearson
PhD: Improving patient experience associated with diagnostic cycloplegia
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Divya Sree
PhD: The relationship between corneal nerves and immune cell morphology and dynamics in health and neural disease
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Rinkal Suwal
PhD: False negative responses in pre-school visual acuity measurements
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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:
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- 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
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