Background

I trained in Spain as a Telecommunication engineer. After graduating at decided to go on the adventure to become a programmer in the laboratory led by Susana Martinez-Conde at the Barrow Neurological Institute. After a year I decided to stay and pursue a PhD studying the tiny eye movements that we make when we try to fixate our gaze, that is, when we try not to move our eyes. During my PhD I had the opportunity to collaborate with clinicians and learn how valuable eye movements are for diagnosis of multiple disorders of the brain, the eye, or the inner ear. For my postdoc I moved to Johns Hopkins where I joined the group of David Zee. Group started by David A Robison, one of the pioneers of using computational modeling to study eye movements. In the lab I developed eye tracking methods to measure torsional eye movements (rotations around the line of sight) and studied their effect on perception of upright as well as many other collaborations improving the diagnosis of patients with dizziness and vertigo. Now, I am an Assistant Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science where I am very interested in the 3D (or 6D) aspects of eye motion and their effects on vision.