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Sandra Wagner

Surname Wagner
First name Sandra
Nationality German
Present position and title Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc., FAAO

Business address

Institute for Ophthalmic Research
University of Tübingen
Elfriede-Aulhorn-Strasse 7
D-72076 Tübingen
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)7071 29 87431
E-mail: sandra.wagner[at]uni-tuebingen.de

Academic Education

Year Degree University Field of study
2020 Dr. rer. nat. International Max Planck Research School for Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen, Germany Neuroscience
2016 Master of Science Aalen University, Germany Optometry and Psychophysics
2014 Bachelor of Science Aalen University, Germany Optometry and Audiology

Further Education

03/2017 - 12/2020

MBA Fundamentals Program for Researchers
HECTOR School, Technology Business School of the KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany

Professional Experience

Period Institution Position Discipline
Since 01/2021 Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany Postdoctoral Researcher Myopia Research/ Vision Research
03/2017 - 12/2020 Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany Research Assistant/ PhD candidate Myopia Research
10/2019 - 03/2020 State University of New York, College of Optometry, New York City, USA Fulbright Visiting Research Fellow Myopia Research
03/2017 - 12/2020 Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany Research Assistant/ PhD candidate Myopia Research
10/2016 – 01/2017 ZEISS Vision Science Lab, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany Research Assistant Vision Research
09/2015 – 05/2016 ZEISS Vision Science Lab, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany Master Student Myopia Research
08/2012 – 11/2012 Brien Holden Vision Institute, Sydney, Australia Research Intern Contact Lens Metrology/ Myopia Research

Teaching

Date Description

Summer Term
2022

Lecture "Applied Optometry"
Degree Program B Sc Optometry
Aalen University, Germany

Professional Activities and Functions

Invited Presentations

Date Description
04/2021 Research Seminar Series, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Bradford, UK
11/2020 Webinar “Myopia Management WebiNights”, Weiterbildung für gutes Sehen, Online seminars for further education of eye care specialists
01/2020 Schnurmacher Institute for Vision Research Colloquium, State University of New York, College of Optometry, New York City, USA
04/2018 69th Annual Congress of the Scientific Association for Ophthalmic Optics and Optometry, Mainz, Germany
01/2016 Panel discussion opti-Forum, “Will the entire world soon be nearsighted? Myopia research between science and reality”, OPTI, International Trade Show for Optics and Design, Munich, Germany
10/2015 Guild meeting of the Federal Trade Guild Association for Opticians and Optometrists (ZVA), Starnberg, Germany

Moderator

Date Description
09/2019 International Myopia Conference Tokyo, Japan. Session 5: Accommodation/Binocular Vision

Academic Awards

Date Description
2022

Certificate Program Leadership in Science, Business & Society (Graduate Academy)
2020 Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (FAAO)
2020

Josh Wallman Memorial Travel Grant Recipient of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), USA
2020 Outstanding Poster Award finalist of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), USA
10/2019 Fulbright Scholarship for six-month Visiting Research Fellowship at SUNY College of Optometry, New York City, USA
08/2018 Best Student Paper Award, Optical Society of America Technical Group Applications of Visual Science
10/2017 Rupp + Hubrach Award for Ophthalmic Optics for master’s thesis
12/2015 Award of Binder Optik GmbH for bachelor’s thesis
11/2014 Carl Zeiss TopJob Award (Best of class)

Past and Current Funding

Date Description
03/2023 - now

Meta Technologies LLC Myopia Grant by the American Academy of Optometry Foundation (AAOF) and Reality Labs Research (RLR)
02/2021 - now

Carl Zeiss Foundation "Breakthroughs at Universities 2020: Intelligent Solutions for an Aging Society"
10/2019 American Academy of Optometry Student Travel Fellowship
03/2017 - 11/2020 Hector Fellow Academy gGmbH
10/2012 - 02/2014 Scholarship “Deutschlandstipendium”
2012 Scholarship “Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium”

Reviewer

  • Vision Research
  • Current Eye Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Biomedical Optics Express
  • Eye and Vision
  • PLOS ONE
  • Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics
  • Frontiers

Memberships

  • The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
  • British Contact Lens Association (BCLA)
  • American Academy of Optometry

Additional information

  • Languages: German, English, French

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles:

  1. Wagner S, Strasser T. Impact of text contrast polarity on the retinal activity in myopes and emmetropes using modified pattern ERG. Scientific Reports. 2023;13:11101. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38192-9
  2. Wagner S, Süer E, Sigdel B, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Monocular transcorneal electrical stimulation induces ciliary muscle thickening in contralateral eye. Experimental Eye Research. 2023;231:109475 doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2023.109475
  3. Straßer T§, Wagner S§, Zrenner E. Review of the application of the open-source software CilOCT for semi-automatic segmentation and analysis of the ciliary muscle in OCT images. Plos one. 2020;15(6):e0234330. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0234330
    § Contributed equally to the work
  4. Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Troilo D. Changing accommodation behaviour during multifocal soft contact lens wear using auditory biofeedback training. Scientific Reports. 2020;10(1):1-10. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-61904-4
  5. Wagner S, Zrenner E, Straßer T. Emmetropes and myopes differ little in their accommodation dynamics but strongly in their ciliary muscle morphology. Vision Research. 2019;163:42-51. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2019.08.002
  6. Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Zrenner E, Straßer T. Prolonged nearwork affects the ciliary muscle morphology. Experimental Eye Research. 2019;186. 107741. doi: 10.1016/j.exer.2019.107741
  7. Wagner S, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Ciliary muscle thickness profiles derived from optical coherence tomography images. Biomedical Optics Express. 2018;9(10):5100-5114. doi: 10.1364/BOE.9.005100
  8. Wagner S, Ohlendorf A, Schaeffel F, Wahl S. Reducing the lag of accommodation by auditory biofeedback: A pilot study. Vision Research. 2016;129:50-60. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2016.10.002
  9. Wagner S, Conrad F, Bakaraju RC, Fedtke C, Ehrmann K, Holden BA. Power profiles of single vision and multifocal soft contact lenses. Contact Lens and Anterior Eye. 2015 Feb;38(1):2-14. doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2014.07.008

Poster presentations:

  1. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA: Wagner S, Süer E, Sigdel B, Strasser T. Monocular transcorneal electrical stimulation induces thickening of contralateral ciliary muscle
  2. International Myopia Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Wagner S, Strasser T. Contrast polarity of text presented in modified pattern electroretinogram affects retinal responses in emmetropes and myopes differently.
  3. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA: Wagner S, Strasser T. Does reading text with inverted contrast affect the ciliary muscle structure of emmetropic and myopic eyes? Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2022;63(7): 1450.
  4. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting 2020: Wagner S, Ohlendorf A, Wahl S, Schaeffel F, Troilo D. Accommodation training with different myopia correction methods. (Abstract of Distinction)
  5. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Wagner S, Strasser T, Zrenner E. Ciliary muscle thickness profiles in far and near accommodation. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 2018;59(9):2940.
  6. International Myopia Conference 2017, Birmingham, UK: Wagner S, Ohlendorf A, Schaeffel F, Wahl S. Does auditory biofeedback influence accommodation variability?
  7. British Contact Lens Association Clinical Conference and Exhibition 2013, Manchester, UK: Wagner S, Conrad F, Bakaraju RC, Fedtke C, Ehrmann K. Power profiles of single vision soft contact lenses. doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2013.08.115

Conference Talks:

10/2020 American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting “Academy 2020 At Home” (virtual meeting): Wagner S, Strasser T, Schaeffel F, Troilo D, Zrenner E. How does the accommodation system of emmetropes and myopes differ?
10/2019 American Academy of Optometry Annual Meeting, Orlando, USA: Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Strasser T, Zrenner E, Troilo D. Accommodation Training in Emmetropic and Myopic Students using Auditory Biofeedback.  
09/2019 International Myopia Conference Tokyo, Japan: Wagner S, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Emmetropes and myopes differ little in their accommodation dynamics but strongly in their ciliary muscle morphology.
04/2019 The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada: Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Does close work affect the ciliary muscle morphology?
08/2018 9th European Meeting on Visual and Physiological Optics, Athens, Greece: Wagner S, Schaeffel F, Zrenner E, Strasser T. Effects of nearwork on ciliary muscle morphology.