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.

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.

Sergio Altomonte

Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Sergio Altomonte is Professor of Architectural Physics at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), where he directs the research group Architecture et Climat. A fully-registered architect, he obtained his Diploma and PhD in Architecture and Environmental Design at La Sapienza University in Rome, after a Master in Sustainable Development at UC Louvain and EPFL (Switzerland). He has held academic positions in UK (Nottingham), Australia (Melbourne) and Italy (Rome) and visiting positions at the Royal Danish Academy (Denmark) and the University of California Berkeley (USA). His research interests and expertise lay at the intersection between indoor environmental quality, building form and systems, and human comfort, health and well-being.

Kevin van den Wymelenberg

Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, USA

Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg is an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon, is the Director of the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory in Eugene and Portland, OR, and Co-Director of the Biology and the Built Environment Center. He has a PhD in the Built Environment from the University of Washington. He teaches classes in daylighting, integrated design principles, energy performance in buildings, and design. Van Den Wymelenberg has consulted on several hundred new construction and major renovation projects with architects and engineers regarding daylight, energy in buildings, and indoor environmental quality since 2000. Five of these projects have been recognized with AIA’s Committee on the Environment Top 10 Awards and many others are LEED certified. He has presented at many conferences including the National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, the Illuminating Engineering Society, LightFair International, and Passive Low Energy Architecture.

Kynthia Chamilothori

Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

Kynthia Chamilothori is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Technology Interaction group at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She received her PhD in Architecture from the Laboratory of Integrated Performance in Design (LIPID) at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2019, and her Master’s degree (Dipl-Ing) in Architectural Engineering from the Technical University of Crete in 2014.
Her research interests lie in the intersection of lighting, architecture, human perception and wellbeing, with a particular focus on how the characteristics of light in space can influence the subjective and physiological responses of occupants.

Dr. Jan Wienold

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, CH

Dr. Jan Wienold is a research and Teaching associate École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. His expertise lie in sustainable architecture with a focus on daylighting, visual comfort, integrated design, and zero energy buildings, with a particular emphasis on the role of daylight in creating comfortable and energy-efficient indoor environments.