Dr. Rossi is an Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh, where he holds a secondary appointment in Bioengineering. Dr. Rossi completed his PhD training in Vision Science at the University of California, Berkeley in the laboratory of Austin Roorda. Following that Dr. Rossi completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of David Williams in the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester and then joined the Advanced Retinal Imaging Alliance at Rochester as a research associate. Dr. Rossi’s PhD research used adaptive optics to study the retinal and neural limits of human vision. In his postdoctoral training, Dr. Rossi improved adaptive optics autofluorescence techniques and applied them to the study of patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). As a research associate, Dr. Rossi worked to improve the clinical utility of adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) and developed a new method that allowed retinal ganglion cells to be imaged in the living eye of humans for the first time. In his laboratory at Pittsburgh, Dr. Rossi has continued to develop and deploy advanced imaging technologies for the study of human disease. Some highlights of his recent work include evaluation of the retinal microscopic near-infrared autofluorescence in AMD, study of fixational eye movements following concussion, and improved nonconfocal AOSLO techniques for fine-scale tracking of microglia in healthy eyes and immune cells in patients with uveitis. Dr. Rossi’s current research interests include adaptive optics ophthalmoscopy, laser doppler holography, full field optical coherence tomography, aging, age-related macular degeneration, inherited retinal dystrophies, glaucoma, uveitis, eye movements and concussion. Dr. Rossi has obtained funding for his work from several sources, including the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Foundation Fighting Blindness, BrightFocus Foundation, the Hillman Foundation and the Eye & Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh.