Bart Melis-Dankers is born in the Netherlands in 1968. He studied physics at the University of Nijmegen. Bart graduated on the topic of The Influence of Visual Information on Postural Control and obtained a PhD-degree in 1996 in Medical and Biophysics on Plasticity and Kinematic Constraints in 3-D Eye-Head Control. Bart is currently working as a Clinical Physicist for Royal Dutch Visio, Centre of expertise for blind and partially sighted people. Visio supports visually impaired and blind people to achieve their individual goals in living, learning, and working as self-supporting as possible. Bart is involved in several scientific research projects, mainly together with prof. Aart C. Kooijman and prof. Wiebo H. Brouwer of the University of Groningen. These projects focus on Orientation and Mobility for people with a visual impairment in general, with a specialization in motorized participation in traffic. He participated in the scientific study which led to the first Bioptic Driving Program in Europe. Other projects focus on lighting advice and the general accessibility of the build environment for blind and partially sighted people.Bart is treasurer of Vision 2017 12th world congress on Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation which will be held on June 26-29, 2017 in The Hague, The Neterlands. See www.vision2017.org for more information or search LInkedIn for the Vision 2017 group.