Present status
Research Scientist,
Lab Optics & Vision, University of Crete
Lab Optics & Vision, University of Crete
«The eye is the master of astronomy,
it makes cosmography,
it advises and corrects all human arts....
The eye carries men to different parts of the world,
It is the prince of mathematics,
it has created architecture, and perspective, and divine paintings,
it has discovered navigation».
Leonardo da Vinci (1459-1519)
Sotiris Plainis completed his undergraduate studies in Optics and Optometry in Greece and UK, respectively. These were followed by postgraduate (MSc, 1995; PhD, 1999) and postdoctoral (1999-2001) research at the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, UMIST, UK. Since then he has been employed as Principal Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Optics and Vision (LOV), School of Medicine, University of Crete, being a faculty member of two postgraduate courses and having an active research group in visual psychophysics and electrophysiology.
He is appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow at Aston University, UK. He forms a Faculty member of the Basic Optics course organised by the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) and a past member of the Education Committee of the European Academy of Optometry and Optics (EAOO). He is a member of the International Society for Contact Lens Research (ISCLR) and a fellow the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA). He also forms an International Vision Impairment (VI) Classifier, IPC. He is a co-owner and the director of Optical House and contact-lenses.gr.
He is appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow at Aston University, UK. He forms a Faculty member of the Basic Optics course organised by the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) and a past member of the Education Committee of the European Academy of Optometry and Optics (EAOO). He is a member of the International Society for Contact Lens Research (ISCLR) and a fellow the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA). He also forms an International Vision Impairment (VI) Classifier, IPC. He is a co-owner and the director of Optical House and contact-lenses.gr.
Education - Achievements
Diploma in Optics, School of Health Sciences, TEI Athens / 1993
Diploma in Clinical Optometry, UMIST, UK / 1994 MSc in Optometry & Vision Sciences, UMIST, UK / 1995 PhD in Optometry & Neurosciences, UMIST, UK / 1998
Research Scientist, University of Crete / 2002
Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester / 2006 Director of Optical House, Heraklion, Crete / 2007 Member of the International Society of Contact Lens Research / 2009
Fellow of the British Contact Lens Association / 2012
International Visual Impairment Classifier, IPC / 2016
Visiting Research Fellow, Aston University, UK / 2017 Director of Contact-lenses.gr, Heraklion, Crete / 2018 Global Optometrist top 200 research ranking / 2021 International Myopia Institute (IMI) ambassador / 2021
Scientific director of CET “optometry" course, University of Crete / 2021 |
Overview
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