Biography:
Sotiris Plainis completed his undergraduate studies in Optics and Optometry in Greece and UK. These were followed by postgraduate (MSc, 1995; PhD, 1999) and postdoctoral (1999-2001) research at the Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences, UMIST, UK. Since then he has been employed as Principal Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Optics and Vision (LOV), School of Medicine, University of Crete, being a faculty member of two postgraduate courses and having an active research group in visual optics, psychophysics and electrophysiology. Since 2012 he has been developing an eye movement-based method to address the effects of visuo-motor vs. cognitive factors on functional reading performance.