Austin Roorda PhD

Austin Roorda received his Ph.D. in Vision Science & Physics from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1996. For over 15 years, Dr. Roorda has been pioneering applications of adaptive optics, including mapping of the trichromatic cone mosaic while a postdoc at the University of Rochester, designing and building the first adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope at the University of Houston, tracking and targeting light delivery to individual cones in the human eye at UC Berkeley, and being part of the first team to use AO imaging to monitor efficacy of a treatment to slow retinal degeneration.

Since January 2005, he’s been at the UC Berkeley School of Optometry where he is the current chair of the Vision Science Graduate Program. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology and is a recipient of the Glenn A. Fry award, the highest research honor from the American Academy of Optometry.