Michael Ibbotson

Michael Ibbotson is Chief Investigator of the National Medical and Health Research Council, Australia’s $1M bionic vision stimulation grant in partnership with iBIONICS. The main goal is to optimize the diamond implant as a conduit for stimulating the sense of sight in a blind patient. A neuroscientist and Director of the National Vision Research Institute of Australia, Michael’s primary work is investigating the physiological and anatomical structures that process visual information, how these structures influence behaviour and perception, and the development of prosthetic vision devices to return sight to the profoundly blind.