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Computational simulation of the optical performance of an extended depth of focus intraocular lens in post-LASIK eyes

Effect of fixational eye movements in corneal topography measurements with optical coherence tomography

Introduction to the Feature Issue on Adaptive Optics for Biomedical Applications

Susana Marcos is an acclaimed researcher in the field of visual optics and ocular imaging. She is a pioneer in the development of new techniques for the evaluation of the eye, including retinal imaging instruments, aberrometers, adaptive optics, anterior segment imaging of the eye and intraocular lens designs.

Marcos earned her Bachelor and PhD degrees in Physics at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Before coming to Rochester, she was Director of the Institute of Optics, CSIC (2008-2012), Spain, and Professor of Research at CSIC, where she founded the Visual Optics and Biophotonics Lab in 2000. Prior to her tenure at CSIC (the top research institution in Spain, and #7 public research institution in the world), she was a postdoctoral Fellow (funded by Fulbright and Human Frontier Fellowships) at the Schepens Eye Research Institute (Harvard Medical School).

In July 2021 she was appointed Director of the Center for Visual Science, with dual affiliation in Optics and in Ophthalmology at the University of Rochester. She holds a visiting professorship (doctor vinculado) at the Institute of Optics, where she supervises a multidisciplinary, international team of more than 25 members. Her research programs at the University of Rochester address emerging technologies for myopia, presbyopia, cornea and cataract corrections.

Marcos has published more than 210 highly cited research articles, and is the inventor of 23 patent families (14 licensed to the industry). Her research has been key in spin-off companies Plenoptika and 2EyesVision, which she co-funded in 2015. These companies commercialize the Quicksee and the SimVis technologies respectively.

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Director of the Center for Visual Science, Nicholas George Professor of Optics, Professor of Ophthalmology

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