Full Name
Ton Roelofs
Position/Title
Medical Physicist
Organization/Company
Royal Dutch Visio
Speaker Bio
Dr. Ton Roelofs is a medical specialist in Clinical Physics at Royal Dutch Visio. He studied at Nijmegen University, the Netherlands, and did his PhD in Psychophysics at the Institute for Perception Research and the Technical University in Eindhoven. He researched neural networks of the brain at the University Medical Center in Amsterdam and did a postdoc on breast cancer research at the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen. He worked as a department manager at the Swedish company Ericsson and followed a postgraduate training program in perception and technology. He is also specialized in and registered as a Clinical Physicist. Ton has extensive experience with scientific research in both the visual and the auditory field, and as a rehabilitation specialist. He is currently chairman of the Deafblindness expert group of Royal Dutch Visio and is working for the expertise centre for Deafblindness of Visio intensive rehabilitation. He is also the representative from “Kennis over Zien” within the board of DBI. He is a project leader and co-promotor of a number of projects, mainly focused on Deafblindness.
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