The Lund Vision Group is internationally recognised as one of the leading centres for comparative visual science in the world. With around 50 members and 7 active research groups, our work on the visual systems of animals encompasses the entire animal kingdom, from jellyfishes, insects and crustaceans, to squids and vertebrates. Our areas of interest include the design and evolution of eyes, how eyes are adapted to different lifestyles and habitats, and how vision, together with other senses, is used for navigation and for controlling behaviour. Our techniques range from optics, electrophysiology and theoretical modelling – to microscopy, molecular biology and behavioural experiments.

Our research spans a large number of topics, but major themes of our work encompass the ecology of vision and how vision and other senses (such as olfaction and magnetoreception) are used for orientation and navigation, particularly in insects. We are also interested in the optics and designs of animal eyes, how vision and visual processing is optimised at different light levels, how the central complex of the insect brain processes sensory information to steer orientation and navigation, how visual and other sensory cues are integrated to drive short- and long-range navigation and how light and chemical pollutants disrupt normal visual behaviour and physiology.