Ione Fine

Ione Fine is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. She studied Experimental Psychology and Philosophy at Oxford, and did her PhD with Robert Jacobs at Rochester, NY. She then fell in love with a Californian, so she moved to the University of California, San Diego to do a post-doc with Donald MacLeod and Karen Dobkins. After a brief spell at Second Sight Medical Products Inc., she and her husband compromised geographically (her latitude, his longitude) and moved to the University of Washington. She is the co-author of Matlab for the Behavioral Sciences and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. Her work focuses on exploring how the human brain adapts to being blind, and developing new technologies for sight recovery (‘bionic eyes’).