Dr Katerina Kiburg is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Eye Research Australia. She undertook her postgraduate training at the University of Melbourne. She has worked at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne and the Austin Hospital, major tertiary teaching hospitals in Melbourne. She joined the Centre for Eye Research Australia and University of Melbourne as postdoctoral fellow in 2021.

Her work has been in establishing large datasets containing fundus images, visual field and ocular coherence tomography, and then the use of artificial intelligence to predict disease outcomes such as stroke and heart attack.

She is the Deputy Director for the WHO Collaborating Centre for the prevention of blindness in Melbourne. She assists the WHO Office of the Western Pacific Region on vision screening and white papers.