News
03 June 2024
DLA General Assembly 2024 elects five new members!
The Daylight Academy (DLA) is delighted to welcome five new members, elected at the last General Assembly on 30 May 2024. The new members bring expertise in chronobiology, facial surgery, energy efficient building, architecture and social psychology. The new DLA members are: Prof. Harald ...
17 May 2024
DLA member Till Roenneberg receives The Daylight Award 2024 for Daylight Research
Till Roenneberg was announced as the laureate for Daylight Research at The Daylight Award 2024 ceremony in the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC) in Copenhagen on Thursday. The biennial ceremony took place on the occasion of the UNESCO International Day of Light.
15 May 2024
The Daylight Academy celebrates UNESCO’s International Day of Light
The Daylight Academy celebrates the International Day of Light and strives to find ways through which daylight can help realise the Sustainable Development Goals set out by the United Nations.
05 April 2024
7th edition of the deLIGHTed Talks on light and metabolic health coming soon!
The 7th edition of the deLIGHTed Talks will take place soon on 16 April (15:00-16:30 CEST). Save the date! This online webinar will take place under the title “Time Matters – Shining Light on Metabolic Health”. Charna Dibner, DLA member and expert on circadian endocrinology, will moderate ...
08 March 2024
Daylight and green cities project publishes new paper
The Daylight and green cities project, led by Daylight Academy members Prof. Christoph Kueffer, Dr. Bruno Bueno and Dr. Carlo Volf, has published a new paper in the Journal of Urban Management. Titled: “Why daylight should be a priority for urban planning,” the article argues that ...
01 February 2024
Call for Posters open for the DLA Annual Conference 2024!
This year, the Daylight Academy’s Annual Conference is moving close to the arctic circle. Specifically, to the city of Trondheim in Norway, where it will take place from 30-31 May. Early-career researchers (PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) will have the opportunity to present their own ...
31 January 2024
Interdisciplinary Summer School “Measuring Light and Illumination” 2024 – Call for applications
The Daylight Academy is happy to announce that it is organising its second edition of the Interdisciplinary Summer School “Measuring Light and Illumination”! The residential summer school will take place in Chexbres, Switzerland, from 28 July to 3 August 2024. Using a variety of cutting-...
19 December 2023
Christmas freebie! Summer School “Measuring Light and Illumination” booklet now available in printed form
With Christmas round the corner, we are pleased to announce that our PDF booklet, which summarises the experiences and learnings of the students and lecturers who took part in Daylight Academy’s Interdisciplinary Summer School “Measuring Light and Illumination”, has now also been published in ...
28 November 2023
Daylight Awareness Week 2023 – videos now available!
The Daylight Awareness Week 2023 is over, but don’t worry, you can still watch the content online! This year’s Daylight Awareness Week was focused on how humans’ perception of sunlight has evolved over time. Researchers from a wide range of disciplines provided unique insights via online ...
21 July 2023
New DLA Blog post about “The Circadian House” by Colin Fournier
The Circadian House is a small experimental dwelling unit for two people, with 15 multidirectional glazed openings, allowing it to be lit entirely by natural light, from dawn to dusk. It is currently exhibited at the EPFL Pavilions Lighten Up ! On Biology and Time exhibition in Lausanne until the ...
20 July 2023