Ecology of Vision Research Unit members

Name	Reasearch
Academic Staff
Prof. Julian Partridge	Visual pigments, vision in the deep-sea, bioluminescence, colour vision
Prof. Innes Cuthill	Avian colour vision, sexual selection, visual signaling
Dr Nicholas Roberts	Polarization vision in vertebrates and invertebrates, polarization signaling, photoreceptor optics, deep-sea photoreception

Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Juliette McGregor	Deep-sea photoreception
Dr Shelby Temple	Underwater polarization vision

Postgraduate Students
Will Allen	Animal Camouflage
Jim Barnett	Animal Camouflage
James Foster	Behavioural Implications of Polarization Vision in Fish
Irene Espinosa Gonzalez-Garza	The Principles of Camouflage, as illustrated in Waterfowl
Ben Hughes	Using Computer Vision Techniques to Identify Individual Bewick Swans
Tom Jordan	The Evolutionary Optimization of Reflective, Anti-reflective, and Polarizing Optical Nanostructures
Dan Maxwell	Detection of plant stress and disease by spectral polarimetry
Jo Hall	Animal Camouflage
Milly Sharkey	Ontogeny of Polarization Vision in Dragonflies
Jen Swanstrom	Phylogeography of African river fishes
Simon Sanghera	Countershading as a Form of Cryptic Colouration in Fish
Laszlo Talas	Camouflage
Scott Watkins	Animal Camouflage
David Wilby	Nanoscale Optical Devices in the Visual System
Feng "Maple" Xiao	Animal Camouflage

Masters Students
Olivia Stanford

Previous postgraduates

Name	Year	Role
Dr Paula Wood	1995	Mechanisms of visual pigment variation in teleosts
Dr Andew Hope	1996	Rod visual pigments in teleost fishes.
Dr Jeremy Kent	1997	Microspectrophotometry of deep-sea crustacean visual pigments
Dr Nathan Hart	1998	Avian photoreceptors.
Dr Sam Maddocks	1998	The effect of light quality on avian behaviour and welfare
Dr Sarah Hunt	2000	The ecology of vision in a passeriform bird: the blue tit (Parus caeruleus)
Dr Elizabeth Smith	2001	Vision in guppies: visual pigments to behaviour
Dr Rachel Ince	2002	Vision and bioluminescence in deep-sea crustaceans
Dr Emma Smith	2003	Effect of the visual environment on avian welfare
Dr Sophie Pearn	2003	Ultraviolet reflectance, ultraviolet-induced fluorescence and mate choice in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus).
Dr Elizabeth White	2003	Vision and behaviour in fish
Dr Verity Greenwood	2003	Avian colour vision and welfare
Dr Viki Wearmouth	2006	Mechanisms underlying sexual segregation in a monomorphic fish species.
Dr Jennie Evans	2006	Artificial lighting, the visual environment and avian welfare.
Dr Gabrielle Archard	2006	Context-dependent mating behaviour in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata.
Dr Martin Stevens	2006	Avian colour vision and insect defensive coloration
Kiri Green	2008	Visual ecology of the house mouse, Mus musculis
Dr Richard Sherley	2010	A Computer-Vision-Based Automatic Recognition System for African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus)
Emma Howell	2010	Animal camouflage
Jess Stephenson	2010
Dr Jonny Turner	2010	Vision in marine fishes