Deepmala Mazumdar

Doctoral Research Student, Vestibular and Ocular Motor Research group, Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands; Senior Research Optometrist, I-Move project, Medical and Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India

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Deepmala Mazumdar is currently pursuing her doctoral research from Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She has completed her bachelors in optometry degree from West Bengal University of Technology (2007-2011). She subsequently joined Elite School of Optometry, Chennai where she completed her post-graduation studies in optometry (M.Phil. Optometry; 2011-2013). Following which she has joined as a senior research optometrist at Medical Research Foundation, Chennai. She is actively involved in providing academic guidance and supervision in the research activities of undergraduate and post graduate optometry students at the Elite School of Optometry (ESO), Chennai. She has played integral roles in various collaborative research activities and was successful in projecting the fundamental findings as scientific publications and presentations at several national/international platforms. Her area of interest is Glaucoma, Eye movements, and Visual Acuity charts. Her PhD research involves the analysis of eye movement behavior in patients with neurodegenerative diseases. She was awarded the best outgoing student for bachelors in optometry degree in 2011. She received the Second-best poster award presented in ASIA-ARVO 2013. She was awarded the IJO platinum award for best publication, the Ruby Banik award for best researcher by the Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, and the young clinical mentor award for the contribution towards optometric education and teaching in Elite School of Optometry in 2019.

  1. Articles 20 Jul 2021 7 min read

    Zotero: A Quick Start Guide

    Tracking, collecting, organizing, reading, and assimilating the relevant references is an integral process of any scientific research. But this process is laborious when done manually. Hence was the development of reference management softwares (Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, etc.) for the digitalization of relevant scholarly materials and facilitating the process of managing references. Reference managers provide an efficient way to the scientific authors (a) to track, collect and organize several reference materials. They also provide (b) virtual library with unlimited storage for reference materials with backup, (c) aid in easy management of the process of citation and automatic insertion of a reference/bibliography list in the required formatting style as well as (d) to create and collaborate with multiple libraries/groups. This particular chapter is prepared to give you an overview of the specific features and a quick start guide to use a popular reference manager ‘The Zotero’. What i

    Najiya Sundus K. Meethal · Deepmala Mazumdar
  2. Students Gallery 13 Apr 2021 7 min read

    Mendeley Reference Manager: A Step-by-step Guide

    Reference managers (such as Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote) are applications that help scientific writers to search, store and organize literature. Additionally, these platforms allow to systematically insert citations and references in any chosen style while writing manuscripts. These tools allow changing reference style with a few clicks. Reference managers are tools made aiming at academicians and authors of scientific writing. This comes in handy for students for writing thesis and assignments. Writing scholarly papers in any discipline requires the citation of relevant literature. Managing references, in-text citations, and integrating these in the suggested format is a tedious process, especially when done manually. Digital storing of scholarly publications has been available for more than 25 years. In the past 10 years, the ‘Reference Managers’ have become an indispensable part of the scientific writers. Amongst others ‘Mendeley’ is an open reference manager which allows easy storing

    Deepmala Mazumdar · Najiya Sundus K. Meethal