[visionlist] 2025 Boynton Award

[Alex Wade]

Dear Vision Community

The Optica Fall Vision Meeting Planning Committee is delighted to
announce that Austin Roorda has been selected as the 2025 Boynton
Award recipient.

Named in honour of the late Robert M. Boynton, this distinction
recognises vision scientists whose work marries rigorous basic
research with bold technical innovation. Professor Roorda’s career
exemplifies that ideal. His pioneering work in the field of adaptive
optics - including the development of the adaptive-optics
scanning-laser ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) opened an entirely new window
onto human vision by allowing individual photoreceptors to be imaged,
stimulated and tracked in vivo.

Beyond instrumentation, Professor Roorda has reshaped our
understanding of colour and spatial vision through elegant
collaborations with colleagues throughout the world. His laboratory’s
recent demonstrations of cone-targeted stimulation at population scale
and optoretinographic measures of photoreceptor function continue Bob
Boynton’s legacy of connecting optical, neural and perceptual levels
of analysis.

Professor Roorda is a Fellow of Optica, ARVO (Gold), and the American
Academy of Optometry, and was recently co-awarded the 2024 Rank Prize
in Optoelectronics. From July 2025 he will (re)join the University of
Waterloo as Professor of Optometry and Vision Science after two
decades at UC Berkeley, where he has also co-founded and directed the
Center for Innovation in Vision and Optics.

This year’s Optica Fall Vision meeting will be held from 2-5 October
at the University of Minnesota and will feature invited sessions on MR
Imaging of the visual system, computational modeling, reading and low
vision, as well as the Boynton Lecture by Austin! Please save the
date; registration and abstract submission will open soon!
--
Professor Alex Wade
Department of Psychology
University of York
Heslington, UK
YO10 5DD

-- 
Professor Alex Wade
Department of Psychology
University of York
Heslington, UK
YO10 5DD

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