Address

20 Staniford Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114

Contact Information

Email: tobias_elze at meei.harvard.edu

Dr. Tobias Elze

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Co-Director of the MEE Clinical Data Science Institute
Director of Harvard Ophthalmology AI Lab

Schepens Eye Research Institute
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Harvard Medical School

Profiles

Biography

Dr. Tobias Elze is a computational vision scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear. His research addresses the methodology of basic and clinical vision science, such as optimal design of experiments and clinical studies and optimal data analysis (particularly for large and high-dimensional datasets). Dr. Elze’s current projects include the functional characterization of eye diseases like glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and diabetic retinopathy, and the relationship between retinal structure and functional vision loss. Dr. Elze also develops adaptive sampling techniques for efficient clinical function testing and investigates display technology for clinical applications.

As a former member of the research group “Complex Structures in Biology and Cognition” at Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Dr. Elze focused on methodology in visual neuroscience and psychophysics. In 2011, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Peter Bex at Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, where he started to investigate ophthalmic diseases using psychophysical and bioinformatical methods and machine learning. In 2013, he became an Instructor in Ophthalmology and in 2017 an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Elze was promoted to Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School in 2022. His group works at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and clinical ophthalmology.

Education

  1. 2013

    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
  2. 2011

    PhD

    Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Professional Appointments

  1. 2022-Present
    Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
    Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
  2. 2017-2022
    Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
    Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School
  3. 2013-2017
    Instructor in Ophthalmology
    Schepens Eye Research Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School

Awards

  • 2022
    SERI Scholar Award
    Schepens Eye Research Institute
  • 2018
    Alice J. Adler Fellowship
    Harvard Medical School
  • 2013
    Best Clinical Poster
    Harvard Ophthalmology