Dr. Brian Brown, BAppSc, BSc, MAppSc, PhD
Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Dr. Brian Brown was trained in Optometry at the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Optometry, completing his training in 1964. He subsequently completed a BSc in Psychology and Physiology, a Master’s Degree under supervision of Barry Cole, and then a PhD. A Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the City University in London followed, and then three years in Psychology at the University of Nottingham before a move to the United States.

He spent 10 years at the Smith Kettlewell Institute of Visual Sciences, collaborating with Tony Adams, Mert Flom and Gunilla Haegerstrom-Portnoy. Upon returning to Australia in 1983, to the Queensland Institute of Technology, he was given responsibility for development of the research profile of the Optometry Department. In 1990, Michel Millodot recruited him to perform a similar task for the Department of Optometry and Radiography at the Hong Kong Polytechnic.

He currently has a consulting role, primarily at the Queensland University of Technology, where he is an Adjunct Professor; he has recently completed a project on electrophysiology of hearing at the Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute.