Oliver Findl

Oliver Findl, is Professor of Ophthalmology and chairs the Department of Ophthalmology at the Hanusch Hospital, Vienna, Austria. He founded and heads the Vienna Institute for Research in Ocular Surgery (VIROS).

A research fellowship at Children?s Hospital in Boston was followed by residency and an anterior segment surgery fellowship at the Medical University of Vienna. He was a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, for several years.

His research interests are in the fields of optical biometry, presbyopia correcting IOLs, posterior capsule opacification and the pathogenesis of myopia. He has authored more than 350 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and is currently the immediate past-president of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) as well as the treasurer of the Austrian Ophthalmological Society.