Nisha Nixon is a PhD student and Clinical Research Training Fellow, working in Professor Yu Wai Man’s team to harness novel technologies to develop more precise, child-friendly and appropriate measures of functional vision in patients with optic neuropathies. She completed her Medicine undergraduate studies at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, with a First Class Honours degree in Neuroscience. She then completed an Academic Foundation Program and Academic Clinical Fellowship in Ophthalmology in the East of England.