Ruben Pastilha is an Early Stage Researcher at the Institute of Neuroscience of Newcastle University. He graduated with honours in 2015, receiving marks at the top of his class on the Optometry and Vision Sciences undergraduate course of the University of Minho (UMinho) at Portugal. During this course, he received 5 different awards for academic merit and completed a Scientific Initiation Scholarship at the Colour Science Lab of UMinho. He stayed in this lab, under the supervision of Sergio Nascimento, until 2018 working on colour vision and colourimetry, while also attending a master course in Advance Optometry and working on the staff team of the distance learning course of Visual Therapy from the same university.During his master’s thesis, Ruben collaborated with the largest hospital centre of Portugal (CHUC) and the lens manufacturer Shamir Optical to produce coloured lenses for improving skin erythema detection by medical practitioners with colour vision deficiencies. 