Rate My Professor Andrew Anderson

Associate Professor Andrew Anderson is affiliated with the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Melbourne, within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. He qualified as an optometrist from the University of Melbourne in 1993, completed a Master of Science in 1997, and earned a PhD in 2000 from the same institution. He then held postdoctoral positions at the Devers Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon from 2000 to 2002 and at the Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge from 2002 to 2004. In 2005, he began a tenured lectureship in the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences at the University of Melbourne, later advancing to Associate Professor. In 2012, he was awarded a four-year Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council.

His research employs psychophysical and behavioural methods to study how the human visual system processes information in healthy and diseased eyes, including mechanisms of visual perception, motion processing, and decision-making processes in vision. Key focus areas encompass visual field assessment for glaucoma, perimetry techniques, and factors influencing perceptual decisions. He coordinates the subject 'Perception, Illusions & Art,' which examines the science of visual perception and its exploitation by artists. Selected key publications include 'Frequency-doubling technology perimetry' (2003, Ophthalmology Clinics of North America), 'Small Samples: Does Size Matter?' (2001, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science), 'Measuring rod and cone dynamics in age-related maculopathy' (2008, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science), 'Characteristics of the normative database for the Humphrey matrix perimeter' (2005, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science), 'A simple two-stage model predicts response time distributions' (2009, The Journal of Physiology), 'Can Home Monitoring Allow Earlier Detection of Rapid Visual Field Progression in Glaucoma?' (2017, Ophthalmology), and 'Do Blue-blocking Lenses Reduce Eye Strain From Extended Screen Time? A Double-Masked Randomized Controlled Trial' (2021, American Journal of Ophthalmology). These contributions have advanced understanding in clinical optometry and visual psychophysics.