Dr Pelsin Demir

Sweden

Dr. Pelsin Demir is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Optometry at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her expertise focuses on pediatric optometry, refractive error development, myopia, optical mechanisms of eye growth, and epidemiology. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Science (Optometry), an MSc in Clinical Optometry from Karolinska Institutet, and a BSc in Optometry.

Her research focuses on understanding eye growth and refractive development in children, with particular emphasis on early-life determinants and epidemiological risk factors influencing refractive error development. She is the Principal Investigator of the DIVE cohort (Digital Interference with Vision and Eye Development), a longitudinal, multiethnic cohort study funded by a 3.5 million SEK national research grant. This project follows children from early childhood to investigate eye and vision development and identify environmental, optical, and epidemiological factors influencing refractive development.

Her work integrates clinical optometry, optical science, and population-based research to improve understanding of pediatric eye development and support evidence-based prevention and management of refractive errors and myopia. She has published research on refractive error development and myopia in children and is actively involved in teaching and supervising optometry students. She also serves as Programme Coordinator for the Master’s Programme in Clinical Optometry at Linnaeus University.

Through her research, academic leadership, and clinical engagement, she contributes to advancing the understanding, prevention, and management of refractive errors and myopia in children.

Dr Pelsin Demir

Foundation for the Support of Ophthalmology Development “Ophthalmology 21”

Foundation for the Support of Ophthalmology Development
“Ophthalmology 21”