Barbara Szybinska Matusiak 

Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO

Barbara Szybinska Matusiak, PhD, is trained as architect and has six years architectural practice. During this period she won several closed architectural competitions in Norway. She joined the Faculty of Architecture NTNU in 1994 as a research fellow. Her doctoral project was devoted to daylighting in linear atrium buildings at high latitudes (finished 1998). She designed the artificial sky and artificial sun for the new daylight laboratory (constructed 2000-2002) and the new full-scale room laboratory ROMLAB (finished 2006) at the same Faculty.

Jennifer A. Veitch

PhD, National Research Council of Canada, CA

Jennifer A. Veitch, PhD, is best known for her research on lighting quality, individual controls, and environmental and job satisfaction in open-plan offices. Dr. Veitch is a Principal Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, where she has led research into lighting effects on health and behaviour for over 20 years. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. In 2011 she received the Waldram Gold Pin for Applied Illuminating Engineering from the International Commission on Illumination (CIE). She serves CIE as Director of its Division 3, Interior Environment and Lighting Design.

Peter Boyce

PhD, Independent Consultant, UK

Peter Boyce, PhD, earned his doctorate in Reading University, England in 1965. In 1966-1990 he worked as Research Officer in Electricity Council Research Centre, England. In 1990-2004 he was the Head of Human Factors at the Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. Since 2004 he has been working as an independent consultant. His current interest areas are photobiology, lighting for elderly, security lighting, light pollution and lighting quality. He has published the book Human Factors in Lighting as well as many papers in recognized journals.

Marilyne Andersen

Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH

Marilyne Andersen, PhD, is Full Professor in Sustainable Construction Technologies at EPFL in Switzerland, and Dean of the School of Architecture,  Civil and Environmental Engineering.

She is the head of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID) since 2010. Before joining EPFL’s faculty, she was an Associate Professor at MIT in the Building Technology Program and the Head of the MIT Daylighting Lab that she founded in 2004. Marilyne Andersen owns a MSc in Physics and specialized in daylighting through her PhD in Building Physics at EPFL and LBNL in California.

Dr. Jens Christoffersen

VELUX Group, DK

Jens Christoffersen (PhD), has for many years been involved in national, international and European research programmes on Light and Daylight while working at the Danish Building Research Institute. In 2010 he joined the VELUX Group where he works in the Daylight, Energy and Indoor Climate group, which role within the VELUX Group is to be a knowledge and competence centre in the area of daylight, energy and indoor climate – related to the effects of VELUX products in buildings.