James

James is a Professor of Optometry and Vision Science with over 20 years of clinical, academic, research and management experience. His primary clinical interests are in paediatrics and ocular disease. He is founder and Director of the Centre for Eye Research Ireland (CERI), a research facility at Technological University Dublin dedicated to providing state of the art solutions for blindness prevention.

John

John is a Mathematics and Statistics Lecturer at TU Dublin and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Eye Research Ireland. John's primary research interests are in Neuroscience & Big Data analytics.

Ian

Ian is a paediatric ophthalmologist who has been involved in myopia research for over 25 years, principally in the areas of computational modelling, the optical control mechanisms of eye growth and the public health implications of myopia. He was awarded the Fincham Medal in 2001 by Worshipful Company of Spectacle makers for his work in this field. In addition to his clinical and research activities, he has extensive commercial and intellectual property experience, having founded two software companies and holds numerous patents.

Kate

Kate is an Arnold Graves Postdoctoral Research Scientist at CERI. Kate is our clinical trial coordinator with responsibility for overseeing the conduct of our portfolio of clinical trials. Her own research interests relate to neuroscience research, myopia control, technology development and commercialisation.

Matilda

Gareth

Gareth is an orthoptist and Arnold Grave Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CERI. Gareth is involved in the MOSAIC and TOAST trials investigating the impact of low-dose atropine eye drops. Gareth has a background in ophthalmic epidemiology and is interested in the prevention and treatment of eye conditions.

Aoife

Aoife is an Arnold Graves Postdoctoral Research Scientist at CERI. She is involved in the coordination and support of our myopia control clinical trials. Aoife is also interested in research relating to psychophysics and retinal disease.

Joanne

Joanne is an Assistant Staff Officer at CERI. She supports the conduct of the trials, communication, treatment accountability, and general trial logistics.

Brian

Brian is an Arnold Graves Postdoctoral Research fellow at CERI. Brian is working on Big Data analytics.

Michael

Michael is an Optometry lecturer at TU Dublin and a postgraduate research student at CERI. Michael is interested in big data analytics, and particularly the application of big data analysis to electronic health record data.

Kobia

Emmanuel Kobia-Acquah is a postgraduate research student at CERI. His research interests focus on myopia control and public health policies in optometry. He is a study investigator on the ongoing “Myopia Outcome Study of Atropine in Children (MOSAIC)” and "Children using atropine for reduction of myopia progression (CHAMP)"" clinical trials at CERI which are designed to determine the efficacy and safety of 0.01% atropine eye drops in the management of myopia in European children.

Stella

Stella has joined CERI as a clinical optometrist to pursue a PhD in the area of myopia control. Tatiana is a study investigator for the "MiSight® Analysis of Progression" (MAP) Study which is investigating Coopervision myopia control lenses for the prevention and control of myopia progression in children, and the "Children using atropine for reduction of myopia progression" (CHAMP) study which is using atropine to prevent the progression of myopia in children.

Joy

Joy is a TU Dublin funded PhD research student working with CERI in affiliation with the facility for optical characterisation and spectroscopy (FOCAS). She is investigating ways of routinely screening macular pigment carotenoids and other lipid peroxidation compounds using spectroscopic serology.

Eoin

Eoin joined CERI as a Research Officer in September 2021. Having previously completed a BSc and MSc in Sport Science in Loughborough University in the UK, he qualified as an Optometrist in DIT (Kevin St). He worked in private practice for a number of years, before joining CERI where he is involved in clinical research across a range of studies.

Alicia

Alicia Gómez, Msc. Optometrist. Alicia is a clinician at CERI mainly involved in MAP, TOAST and DOPAVISION trials who has been involved in retina degeneration and neurovision studies in animal models. Her primary research interests are retinal changes in myopia and trials management.

Niamh

Niamh is a postgraduate research student at CERI studing the role of nutrition for myopia.

Gabriela

Gabriela is a Senior Research Assistant at CERI. She supports the conduct of the trials, communication, treatment accountability, data entry and general trial logistics. Gabriela is also involved in lab analysis of serum & saliva samples and other biomedical lab work.