Affiliation: University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology; Athens Eye Hospital, Department of Research

Dr. Dimitrios Christaras is a senior researcher at the Athens Eye Hospital in Greece. He obtained his PhD in physiological optics at the Laboratorio de Optica, Universidad de Murcia in Spain, one of the leading research groups in its field worldwide. He spent two years as a research associate at University College London, where he still holds an honorary position and an active collaboration. His main field of research has been the effect of intraocular scattering in vision and in fundus imaging, as well as the development of adaptive optics systems for the study of vision in the natural and pseudophakic eye. His research interest also includes the development of innovative methods and instruments for ophthalmological applications. His research has been funded by several national and international grants, while his current project is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow Action. He is the co-inventor of an international patent for an instrument that measures macular pigment optical density.