ohn Barbur is Professor of Optics & Visual Science and Director of the Applied Vision Research Centre at City University London. John trained at Imperial College where he studied Physics, Applied Optics and Vision Science.
John's research interests cover both fundamental studies of visual mechanisms as well as applied and clinical research. He has pursued the development of research instrumentation and new measurement techniques and this has resulted in new methods and instrumentation for analysis of pupil response components, spatial vision and chromatic sensitivity and the measurement of scattered light in the eye. The various techniques are based on both visual psychophysics and the measurement of involuntary responses such as eye movements and pupil signals and have been employed to study both applied and clinical aspects of visual processing.
Prof Barbur has been closely involved with the activities of the Applied Vision Association, the Colour Group of Great Britain, the International Colour Vision Society. Studies carried out over several years by Prof Barbur and his colleagues at City University London formed the basis for the formation of the Applied Vision Research Centre in 1986. Several students, with both clinical and basic science backgrounds have been trained in Prof Barbur's laboratory over 30 years and have found employment in industry, hospitals and universities. Professor Barbur is a Fulbright Scholar and spent time as Visiting Professor at the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester, N.Y. where he worked on colour vision, visual performance in the mesopic range and adaptive optics.
