Professor Leopold Schmetterer has graduated from the Technical University of Vienna.

In 1989 he finished his PhD.

Now he is Professor of Ophthalmology at the Singapore Eye Research Institute and the Nanyang Technological University.

Until 08/2016 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-specialities 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 280 articles in peer-reviewed journals, more than 50 book chapters and recently edited a book on “Ocular Blood Flow”.