Steve Fotios

Professor, University of Sheffield, UK

 

Steve Fotios, PhD, I am professor of lighting and visual perception in the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield (UK) where I lead research of lighting and its effects on human behaviour – our evaluations of the lit environment and our ability to see – currently with a focus on lighting for pedestrians. I enjoy working with PhD students, and in particular encouraging them to consider methods before results . A long standing desire to help students in this way was realised after a chance meeting with Jens Christoffersen, and this lead to establishing the Academic Forum and LumeNet, annual workshops discussing daylight and lighting (in its broader sense) in alternate years.

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.

Magali Bodart

PhD, Université Catholique de Louvain, BE

Magali Bodart, PhD, graduated as civil engineer and PhD in Applied Sciences at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). She obtained her Master of Science in Architecture and Sustainable Development from EPFL (Lausanne – Switzerland). Present, she is now Lecturer in the Faculty of architecture, environmental engineering, urbanism (LOCI) at UCL and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture of the Chinese University of Honk-Kong. She is also Research Associate in the team “Architecture et climat”, where she is in charge of the daylighting and electric lighting research projects.

John Mardaljevic

Professor, Loughborough University, UK

 

John Mardaljevic (PhD, FSLL) is Professor of Building Daylight Modelling at the School of Civil & Building Engineering, Loughborough University. Mardaljevic pioneered what is now known as Climate-Based Daylight Modelling. Founded on rigorous validation work, CBDM is now the basis for research and, increasingly, industry practice worldwide. Mardaljevic’s practice-based research and consultancy includes major projects such as the New York Times Building and The Hermitage (St. Petersburg). He currently serves as the ‘UK Principal Expert on Daylight’ for the European Committee for Standardisation CEN / TC 169 WG11, and on a number of International Commission on Illumination (CIE) technical committees. In 2012 Mardaljevic was presented the annual UK lighting award by the Society for Light and Lighting (SLL). He is CIE-UK Representative for Division 3 (Interior Environment).

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.

Dr. Martine Knoop

Technische Universität Berlin, DE

 

Martine Knoop (PhD), is Lecturer at the Chair of Lighting Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. In this role, she is responsible for research and education on daylighting, indoor lighting and colorimetry. Since 2013, Martine is chair of the CIE technical committee dealing with the benefits of daylighting. This work is linked to her own research project, looking into the unique characteristics of daylight responsible for the user preference for this light source, in order to promote and improve daylight design, as well as to develop new adaptive electric lighting solutions, to enhance user well-being and performance in indoor spaces.

Werner Osterhaus

Professor, Aarhus University, DK

 

Werner Osterhaus is an architect and Professor of Lighting Design Research at the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University in Denmark. His passion lies in applying design, technology and science to architectural (day)lighting to ensure well-being and pleasant experiences for building occupants and a sustainable built environment. Werner has been involved in daylighting research and design since he first started working with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Windows and Daylighting research group in 1987. Since 1994, he has been a full-time academic in schools of architecture in the USA, New Zealand and Germany, and since 2009 in a school of engineering in Denmark.