About Gunnar

2021 - present: Associate Professor of Optometry and Vision Science

2020 - present: Admissions Tutor

2017 - 2021: Lecturer in Optometry

2016 - 2017: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2013 - 2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2008 - 2013: PhD, Department of Vision Science, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2005 - 2008: BSc Optometry, University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck, Germany

2001 - 2005: Medical School, University of Lübeck, Germany

Teaching

BSc Optometry & MOptom Optometry

2017 - present: Visual Perception (OPT404, module lead)

2023 - present: Human Anatomy and Physiology (OPT407)

2017 - 2021: Geometric and Physical Optics 

2017 - 2018: Clinical Optometry Skills

MSc School of Health Professions

2021 - present: Applying Evidence to Practice (ADV702, module lead)

2020 - present: Rehabilitation, Cognition, Perception & Behaviour (ADV739) - Visual Perception 

2020 - present: Applied Quantitive Research Methods (MCR702) - Applied nonparametric statistics, Data processing and graphical display for complex datasets

Contact Gunnar

+44 1752 587558
gunnar.schmidtmann@plymouth.ac.uk