Biography

Professor Kalloniatis completed his optometry degree at the University of Melbourne and after completing his Master's degree at the same institute, undertook PhD studies at the University of Houston College of Optometry.  At UHCO, he studied color vision processing in the monkey visual system under the supervision of Dr Ron Harwerth.  After post-doctoral training in retinal neuroanatomy at the University of Texas with Dr Robert Marc, he returned to Melbourne where he was a faculty member in the optometry department setting up a neurobiology and visual psychophysics laboratory.  In 2021, he moved to the University of Auckland New Zealand where he was the Robert G Leitl professor of optometry and vision science.  During his time at the University of Auckland, he became head of school and associate dean of research within the faculty of science.

From 2009 until early 2022 he was the Centre Director and Professor at the Centre for Eye Health, UNSW (a Medical Imaging Centre). The Centre provided state of the art ocular imaging, diagnostic and treatment for eye disease.  In addition to clinical services, there was development of didactic and clinical training material within the University of New South Wales optometry program.  He now holds an Adjunct Professorship at UNSW and is an Affiliate Professor at Deakin University continuing his clinical teaching to optometry students and his research activities. His expertise is in retinal neurobiology, visual psychophysics (as it applies to clinical testing) with a keen interest in glaucoma and retinal disease diagnosis. He has continued his clinical practice during his career and is an active researcher publishing in a wide topic area with a keen interest in visual field testing, OCT, OCT-A and structure-function concordance in ocular disease.  He also presents at both local and international professional and scientific meetings.