Svetlova Olga Valentinovna
North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov, Russia
Biography
Olga V. Svetlova, Med.Sc.D., professor of Department Ophthalmology of North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikov. She is the author of 211 scientific works, 2 monographs (2016). More than 25 years, she has been conducting research on Biomechanics and physiology of the eye at the intersection of academic disciplines. The co-author generalized classification of executive mechanisms of accommodation and proposals for development of the theory of accommodation of lens by Helmholtz, including the joint work of the front mini-lens and posterior mini-lens in the capsule of the lens to create a sharp image. She is the co-author and developer of the theory of functions of fibrous sheath eyes, the theory of open angle glaucoma and metabolic adaptation theory of acquired myopia; as well as the co-author of new dynamic diagnostic methods to determine the in vivo new physiological and biomechanical characteristics of the eye.