About us
We provide an interdisciplinary team of specialists in the fields of optometry, medicine and physics as well as external lecturers from the fields of ophthalmology, orthoptics, low vision, occupational optometry, business administration and clinical optometry. This enables us to offer a wide range of expertise in our profession.
We contribute to specialised fields on an international level, such as the examination board for the ECOO European Diploma, the board of the ECOO Education Committee, standardisation committees and executive board activities in large optometric associations. We are members of important optometric associations such as EAOO, ECOO, AAO, VDCO, IVBS and the national Swiss associations OPTIKSCHWEIZ and SBAO.
The institute and several of its individual affiliates are members of the EAOO and hence benefit from the European network of research and clinical optometry.
Head of Institute and Head of Programme
Head of FHNW Institute of Optometry
Programme Head BSc Optometry
Team
Head of applied research and development, Lecturer
Lecturer for Optometry
Lecturer for contact lens fitting
Lecturer for Anatomy and Physiology of the eye
Lecturer and Head of Training Clinic
Administration FHNW Institute of Optometry
Christian Birkenstock
Lecturer
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Tobias Bracher
Assistant
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Fabrice Gogniat
Scientific employee
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Prof. Stephan Gutzwiller
Lecturer
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Caroline Guy
Assistant
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Joëlle Joss
Lecturer
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Emanuele Käser
PhD student
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Xenia Knobel
Lecturer
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Léonard Kollros
Lecturer
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Dr. Martin Lörtscher
Lecturer
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Remo Poffa
Lecturer
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Estelle Reymond
Assistant
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Dr. Maria Sol Rodriguez Pena
Lecturer
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Volkhard Schroth
Lecturer
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Philippe Seira
Lecturer
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Pierre Vallier
External Lecturer
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Christian Vogt
Lecturer
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Fabian Wegmann
Assistant
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