Professor Leopold Schmetterer graduated from the Technical University of Vienna. He finished his PhD in 1989. He is Head of Ocular Imaging and Scientific Director at Singapore Eye Research Institute, and Professor of Ophthalmology at the Nanyang Technological University. Until Aug 2016, he was chairing the Ophthalmic Pharmacology at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at the Medical University of Vienna. In addition, he had an affiliation with the Center of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Schmetterer held a post doc position at the Institute de Recherche en Ophthalmologie in Sion and was a guest Professor at EPFL in Lausanne.

His research interests include a wide array of sub-specialties in ophthalmology including imaging, glaucoma, medical retina and dry eye syndrome. He is involved in many international societies including EVER (president 2012 and president elect of the EVER foundation), ARVO (program committee member 2009-2011), ISOPT (program committee member), AOPT and Association of Ocular Circulation (AOC, president).

Dr. Schmetterer is a member of many Editorial Boards including Progress of Retinal and Eye Research, Acta Ophthalmologica, Current Eye Research, Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Ophthalmic Research. He has published more than 310 articles in peer-reviewed journals, more than 50 book chapters and recently edited a book on “Ocular Blood Flow”.

Terms of Appointment: May 2018 – Apr 2020