Jan Kremers is a biologist with a background in systems’neurobiology, electrophysiology, ophthalmology and psychophysics. He has had experience with research inacademia, non-profit research institutes, and commercial research institutions. Currently, he is fellow in the Excellence Program of the Hertie-Foundation and works at the Department of Ophthalmology of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg where a Professorship in Experimental Ophthalmology will becreated with external funding, that he has acquired. He has a honorary professorship from the University of Tübingen and he is Honorary Visiting Professor Visual Neurosciences at the School of Life Sciences of the University of Bradford (UK). 