Bright environments: Daylight in Sustainable Building Design

Invited speakers

Dr. L. Maierová Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic	Invited lecture: The time for the light and the time for the darkness 09:15 - 09:35
	Dr. Lenka Maierová is an architect and lighting specialist at the Department of Architectural Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. In her interdisciplinary projects, she transfers knowledge between chronobiology, architecture and lighting technology, with a focus on the impact of light on visual comfort and human health.
Dipl.-Ing. A. Rotsch Arup, Berlin, Germany	Invited lecture: From moon to sun – experimental design processes 09:35 - 09:55
	Arup’s Europe Lighting Skill Leader Alexander Rotsch is an award-winning designer and an acknowledged expert in the field of lighting design and technology. The trained architect with a specialization in lighting design has shaped product designs as well as architectural lighting projects, such as the refurbishment of Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Amorepacific's headquarters in Seoul as well as the Orientkaj and Nordhavn Metro Stations in Copenhagen.
Dr. J. A. Jakubiec University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada	Invited lecture: Challenges while measuring and assessing comfort and health impacts from light 09:55 - 10:15
	Dr. J. Alstan Jakubiec is a building scientist, educator, and architect specializing in building performance simulation and comfort measurement at the University of Toronto. He works with students to address the daylight, comfort, health and energy efficiency of buildings. Alstan co-creates the ClimateStudio and ALFA tools for calculating daylight and energy performance, maintains the spectral materials database, and develops new tools as part of his research.
Dr. S. Häfker Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany	Keynote: Light, clocks & behavior in the open ocean 16:00 - 16:30
	Dr. Sören Häfker is a marine chronobiologist at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research. His work focusses on zooplankton, tiny animals that perform daily vertical migrations over hundreds of meters in the open ocean. Dr. Häfker investigates how light environment, endogenous clock systems, and animal behavior affect each other to create a unique interplay of environmental cycles and biological rhythms.