People
BVI Management
- Dr Helio Clemente Jose CuveLecturer, School of Psychological Science, Social signalling & perception
- Dr Andy FlackSenior Lecturer in Modern and Environmental History, Department of History, Environmental history & sensory studies
- Dr Pui AnantrasirichaiAssociate Professor in Visual Computing, School of Computer Science
- William LuntPhD Representative, School of Biological Sciences, Sensory Ethology & Bio-Inspired Materials
- Dr Jasmina StevanovLecturer in Consumer Psychology, Business School, Art consumption
- Dr Laszlo TalasLecturer in Animal Sensing & Biometrics, Bristol Veterinary School, Precision livestock farming
- Dr Shelby TempleKey Partnerships Manager, Division of Research, Enterprise and Innovation, Comparative sensory physiology
- Dr Martin HowSenior Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Marine visual systems
BVI Academics
Bristol Vision Institute (BVI) is made up of a community of interdisciplinary vision researchers from across the University of Bristol, who have been collaborating together, across science, engineering, arts and medicine since 2008. Click on the drop downs below to find a list of academics who make up Bristol Vision Institute.
- Andrew Flack - Senior Lecturer, Department of History
- Mary Luckhurst - Professor, Head of the Department of Film and Television, BVI Director and BVI Management
- Kristian Moen - Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
- Kate Robson Brown - Professor of Biological Anthropology, Director Jean Golding Institute
- Sarah Street - Professor of Film and Foundation Chair of Drama
- Beth Williamson - Professor of Medieval Culture, Department of History of Art
- Tim Caro - Professor of Evolutionary Biology
- Innes Cuthill - Professor of Behavioural Ecology
- Marc Holderied - Professor of Behavioural Acoustics and Sensory Ecology
- Martin How - Senior Lecturer
- Christos Ioannou - Professor in Behavioural Ecology
- Nicholas Roberts - Professor of Sensory Ecology
- Davide Pisani - Professor of Phylogenomics
- Shelby Temple - Honourary Research Fellow, Visual Ecology
- Jakob Vinther - Associate Professor in Macroevolution
- Heather Whitney - Reader in Plant Interactions
- Denize Atan - Associate Professor in Neuro-ophthalmology, Neuroscience and Genetics
- Richard Harrad - Honourary Reader, Ophthalmology
- Cathy Williams - Professor of Paediatric Ophthalmology
- Jasmina Stevanov - Lecturer in Marketing
- Chris Benton - Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology
- Iain Gilchrist - Professor of Neuropsychology
- Chris Kent - Professor of Cognitive Psychology
- Ute Leonards - Professor of Neuropsychology
- Casimir Ludwig - Professor of Cognitive Science
- Laura Mickes - Professor
- Ian Penton-Voak - Professor of Evolutionary Psychology
- Annabelle Redfern - Visiting Research Fellow
- Suzanne Quadflieg - Senior Lecturer in Experimental Psychology
- Nick Scott-Samuel - Professor of Experimental Psychology
- Andy Skinner - Research Fellow
- John Fennell - Senior Lecturer in Animal Sensing & Biometrics
- Laszlo Talas - Lecturer in Animal Sensing & Biometrics
- Alin Achim - Professor of Computational Imaging
- Pui Anantrasirichai - Associate Professor in Visual Computing
- Dave Bull - Professor of Signal Processing
- Tilo Burghardt - Associate Professor of Computer Science
- Andrew Calway - Professor of Computer Science
- Dima Damen - Professor in Computer Vision
- Paul Hill - Senior Research Fellow in Image Communication
- Walterio Mayol-Cuevas - Professor in Robotics, Computer Vision and Mobile Systems
- Fan Zhang - Senior Lecturer
- Angeliki Katsenou - Senior Lecturer in Networked Media
BVI Administration
- Laura PughBristol Vision Institute Administrator
bvi-enquiries@bristol.ac.uk
BVI Inspirations
- Richard Gregory (1923 - 2010)Richard Gregory FRS CBE was a polymath, a great interdisciplinary thinker and an inspiration behind BVI. Richard was Professor of Neuropsychology at Bristol and Director of the Brain and Perception Laboratory. Founding editor of the journal “Perception” (1972) and the Experimental Psychology Society, serving as its President in 1981-2. In 1978, he founded The Exploratory, an applied science centre in Bristol - the first of its kind in the UK. He authored and edited several books, most notably Eye and Brain (1966 and still in print today) and Mind in Science. In 1967 he delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on The Intelligent Eye and was a guest on Desert Island Discs. One of Richard’s passions were visual illusions and what these revealed about human perception. Well known for his explanation of the café wall illusion Richard’s achievements were recently recognised by the City of Bristol through the award of a Blue Plaque on the Workhouse Kitchen in Bristol.
- Tom Troscianko (1952-2011)Tom started his career as a lab technician in the British Steel Corporation (1970-71). Then, after a Physics degree from Manchester University he became a Research Scientist at Kodak, where his interest in colour vision began. After a PhD in Optometry and Visual Science (1975-78), he moved to Bristol University in 1978 to work on hearing and vision with Richard Gregory. His many contributions include work on ‘isoluminance’ and its effects on the perception of form and motion and computational modelling of vision. He organised the European Conference on Visual Perception in 1988 and became a Lecturer in 1991. After a spell at the University of Sussex, he returned to Bristol as Professor of Psychology, and founded the Cognition and Information Technology Research Centre (COGNIT) whose aims, like Tom’s, were to foster an interdisciplinary approach to cognitive neuroscience. Tom and COGNIT were an inspiration for BVI and he was a key member of the management team.