Email: tobias_elze at meei.harvard.edu
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Co-director of the MEE Clinical Data Science Institute
Director of Harvard Ophthalmology AI Lab
Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
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Dr. Tobias Elze is a computational vision scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear. His research addresses the methodology of basic and clinical vision science, such as optimal design of experiments and clinical studies and optimal data analysis (particularly for large and high-dimensional datasets). Dr. Elze's current projects include the functional characterization of eye diseases like glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and diabetic retinopathy, and the relationship between retinal structure and functional vision loss. Dr. Elze also develops adaptive sampling techniques for efficient clinical function testing and investigates display technology for clinical applications.
As a former member of the research group "Complex Structures in Biology and Cognition" at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Dr. Elze focused on methodology in visual neuroscience and psychophysics. In 2011, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Peter Bex at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, where he started to investigate ophthalmic diseases using psychophysical and bioinformatical methods and machine learning. In 2013, he became an Instructor in Ophthalmology and in 2017 an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. His group works in the intersection among mathematics, computer science, and clinical ophthalmology.
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Professional Appointments
Instructor in Ophthalmology
Jan 1, 2022 - December 31, 2023
SERI Scholar Award
Alice J. Adler Fellowship
Best Clinical Poster, Harvard Ophthalmology Annual Meeting and Alumni Reunion