Dr Andrew J. Zele is Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Optometry and the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology. He completed his Doctoral studies in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Dr Zele’s first Post-Doctoral appointment was at the University of Melbourne, and his second in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the University of Chicago (USA) with Professor Joel Pokorny. He was also Visiting Research Fellow at the Illinois College of Optometry (USA).
Dr Zele is a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) and the International Colour Vision Society (ICVS). He is the Co-editor of Daltoniana, the quarterly publication of ICVS. He referees clinical and scientific papers for six international journals.
Dr Zele’s research in the Visual Science Laboratory focuses on the mechanisms of mesopic vision, colour vision, temporal processing and visual adaptation, as well as clinical investigations of the ageing eye. He currently holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Project and Fellowship to investigate the mechanisms of rod-cone interaction under mesopic light levels.
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Visual Science Laboratory
This information has been contributed by Dr Andrew J. Zele.
