SOTIRIS PLAINIS
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Sotiris Plainis, MSc, PhD

Optometry - Vision Sciences

Present status

Research Scientist,
Optics & Vision lab, School of Medicine, University of Crete
Sotiris Plainis completed his undergraduate studies in Optics and Optometry in Greece and UK, respectively. These were followed by postgraduate (MSc, 1995; PhD, 1999) and postdoctoral (1999-2001) research at the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, UMIST, UK. Since then he has been employed as Principal Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Optics and Vision (LOV), School of Medicine, University of Crete, being a faculty member of two postgraduate courses and having an active research group in visual psychophysics and electrophysiology.

He is also currently appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow at Aston University, UK and a module leader of the MSc course in "Optometry & Vision Science” (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca). He is a fellow of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) and a member of the International Society for Contact Lens Research (ISCLR) and the International Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE). He is an Advisory Board member of Zeiss Myopia Management committee and a Member of the Editorial Board of Contact Lens and Anterior Eye (CLAE). ​He forms a past member of the Faculty of the Basic Optics course organised by the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) and of the Education Committee of the European Academy of Optometry and Optics (EAOO).  He also formed an International Vision Impairment (VI) Classifier, IPC. He is a co-owner and the director of Optical House and contact-lenses.gr.
Older blog (in Greek)
​https://optics-optometry.blogspot.com/
LINK TO OPTOMETRY CET COURSE
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«The eye is the master of astronomy, 

it makes cosmography,
it advises and corrects all human arts....
The eye carries men to different parts of the world,
It is the prince of mathematics,
it has created architecture, and perspective, and divine paintings,
it has discovered navigation».
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Leonardo da Vinci (1459-1519)
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Education - Achievements

Member of the Editorial Board, Contact Lens and Anterior Eye (CLAE) / 2025  

Full Member, International Association of Contact Lens Educators (IACLE) / 2025


Module leader, MSc course "Optometry & Vision Science", Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy / 2024

Member, MSc course “Management of Refractive Errors and Refractive Surgery”, Medical School, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens / 2024

Member, International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV) / 2024

Member of the 
Myopia management advisory board, Zeiss / 2023

​Scientific director of CET course in “Optometry", University of Crete / 2021

Ambassador in Greece, International Myopia Institute (IMI) / 2021

​​Global Optometrist top 200 research ranking / 2021

​Director of Contact-lenses.gr, Heraklion, Crete / 2018


Visiting Research Fellow, Aston University, UK / 2017

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International Visual Impairment Classifier, IPC / 2016


Fellow, British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) / 2012 

Member, International Society of Contact Lens Research (ISCLR) / 2009

Director of Optical House, Heraklion & Athens / 2007

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Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK / 2006

Member, 
MSc degree in “Brain & Mind”, University of Crete / 2003

​Module leader, MSc course in “Optics & Vision”, University of Crete / 2003

Post-doctoral research scholarship, ​IKY / 2003

​Research Scientist, University of Crete / 2002

Post-doctoral grant recipient, ​
University of Manchester / 1999


PhD in Optometry & Neurosciences, UMIST, UK / 1998 

MSc in Optometry & Vision Sciences, UMIST, UK / 1995
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Diploma in Clinical Optometry, UMIST, UK / 1994    ​
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​Diploma in Optics, School of Health Sciences, TEI Athens / 1993 
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