Research Team: Electrical Stimulation Strategy

The Electrical Stimulation Strategy team is working on developing a safe way to stimulate the remaining cells in the retina. Electrical impulses can be then passed from the eye, along the optic nerve to the vision processing parts of the brain.

Dr Socrates Dokos, University of New South Wales

Project Leader - Stimulation Strategy for the Wide-View Device

Professor Nigel Lovell

Professor Nigel Lovell, University of New South Wales

Program Leader

Professor Peter Blamey

Professor Peter Blamey, Bionics Institute

Project Leader - Psychophysics

Professor Anthony Burkitt

Professor Anthony Burkitt, Bionic Vision Australia and the University of Melbourne

Project Leader - Stimulation Strategy for the High-Acuity device

Professor Nick Barnes

Associate Professor Nick Barnes, NICTA

Project Leader - Vision Processing 

Dr Socrates Dokos profile

Dr Socrates Dokos, University of New South Wales

Project Leader - Stimulation Strategy for the Wide-View device

Research team: Mr Amr Al Abed, Dr Miganoosh Abramian, Mr Brandon Bosse, Dr Morven Cameron, Dr Spencer Chen, Mr Hugh Dennett, Dr Socrates Dokos, A/Prof David Grayden, Mr Amgad Habib, Dr Xuming He, Ms Wenqi Huang, Mr Saiful Joarder, Ms Gita Khalili, Ms Junae Kim, Dr Yi Li, Dr Paulette Lieby, Nianjun Liu, Tatiana Kameneva, Paul Matteucci, Mr Matias Maturana, Chris McCarthy, Prof Hugh McDermott, Dr Hamish Meffin, Dr Brendan O'Brien, Ms Emily O'Brien, Dr Craig Savage, Ms Adele Scott, Dr Chunhua Shen, Mr Nick Sinclair, Mr Kyle Slater, Dr Bahman Tahayori, Mr David Tsai, Mr Nick Venables and Janine Walker.

Postgraduate students: Mr Khurrum Aftab, Mr Umar Ansari, Mr Tianruo Guo, Mr Amgad Habib, Mr Lachlan Horne, Ms Isabell Kiral-Kornek, Mr Kyoungup Park, Mr Samunda Perera, Ms Susmita Saha, Mr Evgeni Sergeev, Mr Hamza Toor, Mr Song Wang, Mr Tao Wang and Mr Shijie Yin.