Zeiss Vision Lab

Industry on Campus Professorship

Thousands of parameters are taken into account to enhance visual acuity, contrast and color vision, UV protection and visual quality in the twilight, at night or in difficult environmental conditions. Wavefront technology, originally used in astrophysics to compensate for atmospheric disturbances, makes it possible to make a “fingerprint” of the human eye and to take this data into account in the production of individualized lenses. However, the complex interaction of light waves, the eye, the natural crystalline lens and the eyeglass lens is far from being fully deciphered. When the processing of the image on the retina in the brain and the occurrence of complex visual defects between the crystalline lens and the retina are fully understood, experts predict a significant advance in the treatment of poor vision.

The ZEISS Vision Science Lab investigates this complex interaction. The goal of this research is to gain an understanding of the development of vision, of the interaction of light with the eye and the eyeglass lens, and of the processing of the image in the brain in many different and dynamic situations and, on this basis, to develop new ways of providing natural, optimized vision to each individual wearer. Another item on its agenda is to research into the development of vision and into pathological changes to perception in order to enable their diagnosis by using suitable measuring methods at an early stage. For these patients, this could result in personalized solutions for enhanced vision.

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Members

Dr. Siegfried Wahl, representative of the Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
research focus: Neuronale und Visuelle Wahrnehmung: "Robust Vision" (homepage under construction)

Prof. Dr. Dieter Kern, representative of the University of Tübingen (Faculty of Science)
Institute of Apllied Physics
research focus: Nanotechnology and Nanostructures

Prof. Dr. Marius Ueffing, representative of the University of Tübingen (Faculty of Medicine)
Institute for Ophthalmic Research
research focus: Molekular Biology of Retinal Degenerantions