Michael Bach, PhD, Scientist

Prof. (emerit) Dr. rer. nat. Michael Bach
Scientist @ Eye Center,  Medical Center,  Uni Freiburg
ISCEV Director of International Communications

📧michael.bach@uni-freiburg.de

🦉Twitter,   🐙GitHub

Publications

Full list & PDFs,  PubMed,  ORCID,  Citations

Presentations

Major Projects / Interests

• Visual Phenomena & Optical Illusions
• Visual Acuity Cheat Sheet
• Music,   Varia on life & vision

CV:  short, full     Wikipedia:  en,   de

Lineage: Neurotree,  Reviewing: Publons

Interests

🎵music,  👁vision,  🏊‍️swimming,  🏄wakeboarding,  🚲biking,  ⌨️programming,  🧠scepsis,  📖books,  🎨Kunstverein Gundelfingen,  🎭theatre,  ⚡️electromobility,  ✈️model aircrafts

Vision et al.

ISCEV,  Arbeitskreis Ophthalmische Optik (AOO),  Vision Science,  WebVision,  PubMed,  GoogleScholar

Mottos

• Always find a reason to laugh. It may not add years to your life but will add life to your years / Sei fröhlich! Zwar bringt das nicht mehr Jahre in Dein Leben, aber mehr Leben in Deine Jahre – Charles M. Schulz
• Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence / Nicht der Bosheit zuschreiben, was schon durch Inkompetenz erklärt wird – Robert Hanlon’s Razor 1980 (or Heinlein?)
• Less is more / Weniger ist mehr – adopted by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1947 (1886–1969), earliest source probably Robert Browning in his poem ‘Andrea del Sarto’ (1855; it appears there on the 78th of 269 lines…)
• The sum of all vices stays constant / Die Summe aller Laster bleibt gleich – personal observation
• Months in the laboratory can frequently save hours in the library – Frank H Westheimer

Language

LEO d↔e,  Linguee,  deepl