Sayantan Biswas is a Lecturer in Optometry at Aston University. Dr Biswas has a BSc and MPhil in Optometry from the Elite School of Optometry and a PhD in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His doctoral study was on the “Evaluation of Glaucoma in Myopia”. My PhD investigated the prevalence of myopic glaucoma, the development and evaluation of a normative database for retinal nerve fibre layer thickness in Cirrus optical coherence tomography (OCT), and the longitudinal assessment of visual field and OCT associated with myopic glaucoma. He was also part of the team which developed an intracameral injection of a chemically cross-linked hydrogel to study chronic retinal degeneration in a rodent glaucoma model. Sayantan’s postdoctoral training was from the Singapore Eye Research Institute on animal models of myopia. The postdoctoral training was marked by innovative methods to investigate the interactive impact of optics and light on ocular growth, refractive error development, and choroidal, scleral, and retinal structures and targeted ocular metabolomics in a chicken model of lens-induced myopia and hyperopia. Sayantan is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), USA. 
Sayantan has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and has been funded by charities and multinational organisations for his research. Dr Biswas is a member of the ARVO APMC anatomy section and an active reviewer of several optometry, ophthalmology and vision science Journals, Ethics committees and Grants bodies. His research is focused on myopia and the therapeutic effect of light. He is supervising 5 PhDs/ professional doctorates and several undergraduates. 

1. Myopia: Development, Progression, Therapeutics and Management
2. Myopia and Glaucoma: Association and Diagnostic challenges

• Theme and Session leader: Systemic disease (MOptom)
• Module leader: Clinical Practice Development (Virtual patient)
• Practical Instructor: Appliances and Devices (AaD)
• Supervisor: Elective Studies (undergraduate research supervision)

• Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
• International Myopia Institute (IMI)
• Optometry Council of India (OCI) 2018-2022
• Malaysian Optical Council (MCI) 2017-2018
• Member of Institutional Research Committee (IRC), School of Optometry, Faculty of Medicine, UCSI University 2016-17
• Member of Institutional Research Committee (IRC), School of Allied Health Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education 2017-2018

Daisy Kynman-Sprinks, PhD (Principal Supervisor), 2023 to date: Evaluation of myopia control strategies (Associate supervisors J. Wolffsohn, N. Logan, R. Chakraborty)

Rachael Finch, DOptom (Principal Supervisor), 2023 to date: Management of Angle-closure Glaucoma Suspects: minimising the implementation gap between new guidance and clinical practice through education and technology (MAGS study) (Associate supervisor L. Davies)

Alvin Jyh Shyang Ho, DOptom (Principal Supervisor), 2024 to date: Semi-scleral multifocal design contact lenses in managing myopia progression in Singaporean children (Associate supervisor S. Naroo)

Huzaifah Khonat, DOptom (Associate supervisor), 2023 to date: Emmetropization and ocular biometry in children (Principal supervisor N. Logan)

Yan Jie Chin, DOptom (Associate Supervisor), 2024 to date: Impact of Myopia on Mental Health in Singaporeans (Principal supervisors R. Shaw, N. Logan)

Potential PhD projects available:

1. Light and myopia: Effect of light exposure pattern on short-term and long-term myopia.
2. Effect of environmental (Visual and non-visual) factors influencing myopia
3. Influence of lifestyle factors on myopia
4. Construction, validation, agreement and repeatability of ophthalmic devices 
5. Myopia and Glaucoma: Association and diagnostic challenges

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