Thursday, September 5th, 9:00
Room GC B1 10
What does the eye tell the clock? Mechanisms underlying the impact of light on physiology and behavior
by Manuel Spitschan
Manuel Spitschan is the Rudolf Mössbauer Assistant Professor of Chronobiology & Health at Technical University of Munich and Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. After undergraduate studies in psychology at the University of St Andrews (2009-2012), he completed his PhD on melanopsin sensitivity in the human visual system at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-2016). Following a post-doc at Stanford University (2016-2017), he joined the University of Oxford on a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, through which he collaborated with the Centre for Chronobiology in Basel (2017-2021). He is the current Speaker of the Steering Committee of the Daylight Academy, Chair of the Joint Technical Committee 20 of the CIE and past Chair of the Optica (formerly OSA) Color Technical Group.
Friday, September 6th, 9:00
Room GC B1 10
Daylightful indoors – why we should care
by Marilyne Andersen
Marilyne Andersen is a Full Professor at EPFL, where she heads the LIPID lab since 2010. Physicist by training, she specializes in the psycho-physiological effects of (day)light with broader research interests on sustainability in the built environment. She is the co-founder of the startup OCULIGHT dynamics and was previously a professor at MIT for 6 years and Dean of the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL for 5 years.