Rishi Bhardwaj
Assistant Professor
School of Medical Sciences
University of Hyderabad
India
Biography
joined School of Medical Sciences at the University of Hyderabad in May 2013. My first degree was in optometry (Elite School of Optometry: 1998-2002). In 2006 I joined Dr. Robert O’Shea’s lab as a doctoral student investigating swap rivalry (Otago University: 2006-2009). I spent two years as a post-doc in the UK, with Dr. Hannah Smithson in Durham working on sensory storage (Durham University: 2009- 2011). I returned to India as an Vice-Principal at Nethradhama School of Optometry (2012-2013).
Research Interest
As qualified optometrist everything about the human visual system excites me. I am mainly interested in factors which can degrade or affect binocular visual processing. Why is it that when a target is followed by a non-target it degrades target perception? Why some situations, like the face-vase image puts our stable perception into oscillatory mode? I am also interested in amblyopic perception, emotion and ocular response, visual field loss due to glaucoma and its influence on motion trajectories, temporal perception, redundant target effect, eye-movements, and much more. I use psychophysical tools to addresses my research questions.
