Jesús Vera is Assistant Professor in the Department of Optics at the University of Granada. After obtaining a three-years degree in Optics and Optometry at the University of Granada (2007-2010), he conducted the Master in Clinical Optometry and Research in the “Centro Boston de Optometría” at Camilo José Cela University (2011). In the two following years, Jesús completed the Bachelor of Science in Optics and Optometry at the Camilo José Cela University (2012-2014). In 2017, Jesús obtained an International PhD with a Cum Laude under the supervision of Dr. Raimundo Jiménez and Dr. David Cárdenas. His research interests include the impact of physical and cognitive efforts on the ocular physiology, as well as the association between the level of physical and mental fatigue/load and the visual function.
He has conducted two international research stays of 3-months each at Western University of Health Sciences (Los Ángeles, USA) and University of California at Berkeley (San Francisco, USA). Jesús has also visited the Helicopter Simulation Centre at the base ‘Coronel Sánchez Bilbao’ (15 days). Jesús actively collaborate with researchers from different disciplines, which allow to cover all the relevant aspects of this line of research, and has established a network of international collaborators at top institutions (i.e., Columbia University, Durham University, etc.). Also, he has participated on three projects funded by the national I+D+i plan (DEP2013- 48211-R; DEP2017-89879-R; y SPIP2014-1426), and two projects funded by the University of Granada in collaboration with other entities. This trajectory has permitted him to publish more than 60 papers in journals indexed in Journal Citations Report and present more than 20 oral communications in international congresses.
Remarkably, Jesús acts as Associate Editor in the Journal PeerJ, is in the top 3 of Spanish authors with more scientific publications within the category of “Ophthalmology” of JCR in the last three years, and has been recognized with the extraordinary doctoral award in Science at the University of Granada.
e-mail: veraj@ugr.es
