Professor Roger Anderson

Biography

Professor Roger Anderson undertook his primary degree in optometry at the University of Wales in Cardiff, graduating in 1986. His pre-registration year was completed at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and membership of the College of Optometrists obtained in 1987. This was followed by a period in clinical practice during which time he studied part-time for a Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Wales. His PhD was undertaken in the School of Optometry at Indiana University, USA and the following two years spent as a Research Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Edinburgh, before joining Ulster University in 1995. From 2007-2014 he was Principal Optometrist (Research) and Professor of Visual Neuroscience at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, positions he now holds in an Honorary capacity.

Research Interest

Prof. Anderson has undertaken research in clinical visual psychophysics for more than 25 years, most notably the relationship between structure and function in diseases such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Recent work has concentrated on the changes in spatial and temporal summation in glaucoma and the implications of these changes for perimetric stimulus design. He is a co-inventor of the Moorfields Acuity Chart, a novel high-pass logMAR letter chart for use in the early detection and monitoring of conditions such as AMD. Currently he is supervising projects involving in vivo retinal imaging using a modified Heidelberg Retinal Angiograph (HRA2) and a novel binocular OCT device.