Sotiris Plainis, MSc, PhD, FBCLA
Optician-Optometrist, Research Fellow

Sotiris Plainis completed his undergraduate studies in Optics and Optometry in Greece and UK, respectively. These were followed by postgraduate (MSc, 1995; PhD, 1999) and postdoctoral (1999-2001) research at the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences, UMIST, UK. Since then he has been employed as Principal Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Optics and Vision (LOV), School of Medicine, University of Crete, being a faculty member of two postgraduate courses and having an active research group in visual optics, psychophysics and electrophysiology.

He is appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow at Aston University, UK and had served as an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester (2006-2013). He is a member of the International Society for Contact Lens Research (ISCLR) and a fellow the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA). He is an Advisory Board member of Zeiss Myopia Management committee. He is a past faculty member of the Basic Optics course organised by the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ESCRS) and of the Education Committee of the European Academy of Optometry and Optics (EAOO).

He also formed an International Vision Impairment (VI) Classifier‬, IPC. He has published widely in his field in peer-reviewed Journals (77), edited a book (“Presbyopia: origins, effects and treatment”, SLACK Incorporated) and is a reviewer of Postgraduate Scholarships of the British College of Optometry. He is the manager of Optical House in Heraklion and Athens.

Orestis Loukaides, MSc
Optician-Optometrist

Orestis is the owner of Optical House in Rhodes since 1996 and co-owner of Optical House in Herakleion in Crete. He graduated (1992) from the Optics department at TEI, Athens. In 1993 he attended a series of courses in Optometry at UMIST (Manchester, United Kingdom) to upgrade his diploma as an Optometrist. At the same university he completed his postgraduate studies: in July 1995 he received his degree of Master for his work entitled “Factors that influence the perception of depth of field.”

He has worked as an Optometrist in Cyprus in Nicolaides Optical, he is an experienced fitter in contact lenses for keratoconus, ectatic corneas and in orthokeratology.

In January 2000 he was awarded the Business Excellence Award from the Chamber of the Dodecanese as a reward for the business policy pursued for the creation and development of his company.

He participates regularly in international conferences and workshops on the subject of Optics-Optometry and Contact Lenses, while he visits in an annual basis the international exhibitions in Paris (Silmo) and Milan (Mido).

Jenny Spaho, MSc
Optician – Optometrist

Jenny graduated from the Department of Optics & Optometry, TEI of Aigion in 2016. In October 2017, she enrolled in the postgraduate program “Optics & Vision” of School of Medicine, University of Crete, which she completed in April 2020.

During her postgraduate studies she visited Aston University as an Erasmus scholar to take part on a postgraduate study on: “An investigation of the change of depth of focus with pupil constriction, using pilocarpine” as a method of treating presbyopia. She is a member of Optical House since September 2018.

Konstantina Alogoskoufi, BSc
Optician – Optometrist

Konstantina is a graduate of the Department of Optics & Optometry of the University of West Attica (2021). During her continuous learning she attended a series of educational courses at the University of Murcia, Spain within the Erasmus programme. She has worked as a clinical optometrist in an ophthalmology clinic and in optical shops. She has a strong volunteer activity (Special Olympics-Opening Eyes Clinic) and seeks to continuously enrich her knowledge through training seminars.

She is an optometrist at Optical House in Athens (Halandri) since March 2023.

Nisa Soula
Optician-Optometrist

Nisa is a graduate optometrist at the Istituto Politecnico Keplero in Termoli, Italy and has been an Optical House associate at Heraklion, Crete since January 2023. She has significant experience in contact lens fitting – she has been working in opticians since 2020, while she continues lifelong education – she has recently completed the training programme “Ophthalmic Optics, Contact Lenses and Visual Perception: an optometric approach” at the KEDIVIM of the University of Crete. She speaks English, Italian and Albanian.