Awards and Patents

Awards

• Karl Engvers Foundation Travel Grant to attend the Visual and Phyiological Optics (VPO) conference in Cartagena, Spain (2-4/9/2026)
  • Faik Ozan Özhan
  • Faeze Masheyekhi
• OPTICA Travel Grant to attend the Biophotonics for Eye Research (BER) International Doctoral Summer School in Granada, Spain (4-6/6/2025)
  • Sara Leite-Silva

• ARVO Foundation Travel Grant to attend the ARVO 2026 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado (3-7/5/2026)
  • Sara Leite-Silva

• SPIE Travel Grant to attend the SPIE Computational Optics conference in Strasbourg, France (15/4/2026)
  • Konstantinos Ntatsis

• Best Student Paper at the SPIE Computational Optics conference in Strasbourg, France (15/4/2026)
  • Konstantinos Ntatsis for his presentation on Deep learning wavefront retrieval in a double-pass setup (co-authors: Dimitrios Christaras, Augusto Arias, Siegfried Wahl, Pablo Artal, Harilaos Ginis).

• Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund Award (2/2/2026)
  • Brian Vohnsen, Sunil Kumar Chaubey were awarded 100,000 EUR for GLOBE (Geometric-phase Lens for Optical Blended Environments). The project aims to advance the development and validation of geometric-phase lens technology for next-generation ophthalmic and AR/XR applications. The project focuses on translating research outcomes into commercially viable solutions for dynamic vision correction, enhanced visual performance, and immersive optical systems.

Patents

• Geometric Phase Ophthalmic Lenses for Non-Implantable Vision Adjustment (filed)
• Instrument and method for measuring the optical properties of the human eye (filed)