Herman Bouma (born 15 March 1934) is a Dutch vision researcher and gerontechnologist.
In 1965 he obtained his PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology under Jan Frederik Schouten with a thesis titled: "Receptive systems mediating certain light reactions of the pupil of the human eye".
[6][7] Bouma further laid groundwork on the spectral dependency of the human pupillary response.
[5] Together with Jan Graafmans and Tony Brouwers, Bouma he has been called one of the inventors of the discipline of gerontechnology by J.E.M.H.
[10] Bouma was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.