João Lemos is a Professor of Neurology at Coimbra University, and works as Neuro-Ophthalmologist and Neuro-Otologist at the Neurology Department, Coimbra University Hospital Centre, Portugal.

He obtained his PhD from Coimbra University working on functional imaging of vertical and horizontal saccades in parkinsonian syndromes. He did his Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellowship at Michigan State University, USA, with Drs. Eric Eggenberger and David Kaufman.

His current research interests include positional modulation of spontaneous nystagmus, eye-head abnormal movements, retinal analysis in secondary intracranial hypertension, eye tracking and retinal analysis in multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease patients with deep brain stimulation, and retrograde transsynaptic degeneration in retro-chiasmal neurological disease.