Fabrizio Zeri is a researcher at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Department of Material Sciences) and Visiting Research Fellow at Aston University in Birmingham. Teaching activity at University of Milano-Bicocca is delivered within the BSc Degree of Optics and Optometry in the courses of Advanced Optometry and Optical Systems. He has been President of the Italian Optometric Society and founder and secretary of the Italian Contact Lens Academy. He is FIACLE, FBCLA, FHEA and member of ISCLR. He is the Regional Director for Europe Africa and Middle East region of the IACLE. In 2014, he achieved a Marie Curie research grant and moved to Aston University for a two-year research project on presbyopia correction. In 2017, he was awarded the Irvine Fatt memorial Lecture by BCLA and in 2019 received the IACLE EAME Contact Lens Educator of the Year Award. He has published over 50 peer reviewed papers as well as having written 1 book and contributed chapters to 6 books. He has given over 100 lectures at conferences in the fields of Ophthalmology, Optometry, Contact lenses and Vision Sciences. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Contact lens and Anterior Eye.