Associate Professor Ranjay Chakraborty

Dr. Chakraborty completed his undergraduation in Optometry from Elite School of Optometry, Chennai, India in 2006. After working as an optometrist for 3 years in India, he joined the PhD program in Vision Science at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Chakraborty's PhD was one of the first investigations to bridge the work on diurnal rhythms and refractive error development in animal models to human eyes, and was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2013 from Queensland University of Technology. Following PhD, he did 3.5 years of postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Ophthalmology at Emory University in Atlanta, USA, where he examined the contribution of various retinal cell types and pathways in normal eye development and response to visual deprivation myopia in mouse mutants.

Dr. Chakraborty joined Flinders University in February 2017. His areas of research interest are myopia and refractive error development, visual optics and retinal imaging. His current work is investigating the role of spectral and temporal features of ambient lighting and circadian rhythms in the pathogenesis of myopia. He uses a range of optical, molecular, and imaging techniques to study various mechanisms underlying the development of refractive errors.