Daylighting in buildings

Scientific Board

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

In the past nine years, Niko has been working in the field of lighting and daylighting, mixing technical and observed-based evaluation. He blends his background in engineering with principles and methods from the domains of environmental psychology and architecture. His research focuses on the role of user in driving energy saving for integrated daylighting and electric lighting solutions, targeting mainly at the role of controls. He participated in the International Energy Agency (IEA) SHC Task 50 and led Subtask D of IEA SHC Task 61 / EBC Annex 77 together with Prof Werner Osterhaus, Aarhus University. He teaches in several courses related to daylighting and lighting at graduate level at Lund University, as well as on exchange in other universities (La Sapienza, Italy and Royal University of Bhutan). He recently co-authored the book "Daylighting and lighting under a nordic sky", available in most of online book shops.
Niko Gentile
Mandana S. Khanie is an Assistant Professor in Daylighting and Lighting at the section for Indoor Environment at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). She specializes in daylighting and visual comfort through her research at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), at the Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID), and later on at DTU. Her research and teaching focus on façade strategies, integrated lighting and daylighting strategies, gaze–photometry, human performance, and exposure-response characterization to spectral lighting. Mandana is currently the course responsible for a highly populated course at DTU on Daylighting and Lighting in buildings where different aspects of the two topics from façade strategies, performance, and visual comfort and health potentials to calculations and evaluations related to then are taught through exercises, examples, and cases. Since she joined DTU, she has supervised several master and bachelor students where they have explored indoor quality where light, acoustics, overheating and natural ventilation. She has been funded externally from different resources, which has enabled her initiate a daylighting lab at the section of indoor environment with research and education prospects.
Mandana Sarey Khanie
Federica Giuliani is a researcher in the Faculty of Engineering at the Università Niccolò Cusano, Rome, Italy. Her research work focuses on design processes and the integration of daylight. She is also an architect and therefore tries to integrate knowledge from her profession into her research work. She profoundly believes in the importance of a holistic approach that can combine design needs and requirements with building technology. She both leads the international projects DAYKE (Daylighting Knowledge in Europe) and NLITED (New Level of Integrated TEchniques for Daylighting education). She is a member of the CIE-Italia and TC 3-54.
Federica Giuliani
Natalia Sokol is an assistant professor at the Gdansk University of Technology with 15 years of lighting design and teaching experience. Her work with stained glass, luminaire and lighting design led her to study daylight within the built environment. Natalia’s research for the Faculty of Architecture focuses on daylight analysis tools (PhD), user’s perception of variously lit environments, daylighting for urban design areas and daylight education. In her work with students she aims to reveal the creative, scientific and a fun side of the lighting profession. Natalia is actively engaged in daylight educational projects DAYKE (Daylighting Knowledge in Europe) – the precursor of NLITED as well as in Daylight Academy’s Educational Package on Daylight, IEA and CIE reports on daylight and electric light
Natalia
Sokol
Dr Luca Zaniboni is a Ph.D. Energy Engineer. He is currently working as a Postdoc Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark. His main areas of expertise are indoor human comfort, sustainable and healthy buildings, non-visual and psychological aspects of lighting & daylighting. During his career, he has always been committed in the study of indoor environment for people with special needs (i.e., hospitals, schools, elderly people). He is leading the Marie-Curie funded project SENSEwellbeing, aimed at assessing the proper indoor environmental quality conditions for people on the autism spectrum. He also has teaching and supervising experience at academic level.
Luca
Zaniboni
Linnéa
Ekman
Tiziano Rumori is a lead design architect at Gottlieb Paludan Architects, holding the LEED AP BD+C credential. He possesses a double master's degree in Sustainable Architecture from IUAV University of Venice and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. Additionally, he completed a postgraduate master's program at the SOS School of Mario Cucinella. Tiziano's professional experience includes roles as an architect at Elemental Alejandro Aravena in Chile, Adept, and C.F. Møller in Denmark.
Tiziano
Rumori
Degreed “Summa cum laude” in Architecture with a thesis on visual comfort, PhD in “Building Physics” with a thesis on daylight simulation through sun/sky simulators. In 2006-07, post-doc fellowship at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada). He’s currently an Associate Professor for the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Torino. Research topics concern the integration of electric lighting and daylighting for both energy saving and comfort and health for the occupants of indoor and outdoor spaces (visual and non-visual effects of light). Research is carried out innovative responsive façades (microalgae as shading systems, responsive glazing – thermochromic or electrochromic), through field analyses (measurements and surveys through questionnaires), software simulations and experiments in test-rooms or real environments. He gives lectures in many courses (degree, post-degree, PhD) on lighting and daylighting, sustainable architecture and planning, ergonomics. He authored over 80 scientific papers, published in international Journals, receiving the Leon Gaster Award for the best paper published (2010) on ‘Light Research & Technology’, and the best paper award for a paper published in Applied Energy (2019). He’s author of the handbook ‘Guide on daylighting design’, and of 3 paragraphs of the ‘Lighting design handbook’ and of 1 paragraph of the book “Sustainable indoor lighting”. He’s part of CIE (Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage). He’s associate editor of ‘Journal of Daylighting’ and he serves as reviewers for several international journals.
Valerio RM
Lo Verso
 

LECTURERS 

Angel Perez Morata is a Sustainability Consultant and Daylight Specialist at ACC Glass and Facade Consultants. With a background in Building Engineering and Environmental Building Design, Angel has extensive experience in advancing sustainable building practices. Notably, Angel contributed to the development of the LEED ACP for Daylight in Nordic Countries and serves as a Concept Advisory Board member for the WELL certification. In this presentation, Angel will share insights on the knowledge and implications involved in performing daylight simulations for shading devices, drawing on years of expertise in optimizing building performance and occupant comfort.
Angel
Perez Morata
Anton Hendrix is a daylight and solar shading specialist at ACC Glass and Façade Consultants. With a background in Energy-Efficient Building Design, Anton has dedicated the last seven years to working with daylight in the built environment. His primary expertise lies in navigating building regulations and various certification systems. In addition to his computational skills, Anton is responsible for customer relations in glazing and solar shading, where he has gained extensive knowledge in the technical and practical aspects of these products.
Anton
Hendrix
Dr Emanuele Naboni (BArch, MArch, MPhil, PhD in Building Science, LEED AP, Licensed Architect) is, since 2010, Associate Professor at the Institute of Technology of the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, School of Architecture (KADK). He teaches and researchers in the field of Sustainable Design at different scales: Urban, Buildings and Components with a focus in linking Ecosystems and Humans via Performative, yet qualitative, Design. He is teaching at various Programs, with a major focus on the Master of Architecture in Extreme Climates, and he is Co-director of the Building Performance Simulation Lab, which focuses on Environment simulation. He teaches in the PhD School running a course on Research Methods. Emanuele worked for years in the field of sustainable design contributing to 47 buildings design, 36 of which are built. He sketches and draws sustainable architectural designs, performs simulation, measures post construction performances. He consulted foremost international architectural offices including BIG, William McDonough and Mario Cucinella Architects, with his office e3Lab founded in 2010 (www.e3lab.org). He has consulted for the implementation of sustainable strategies for a series of Sustainable systems in USA, Europe, and Asia and developed new façade types for various manufacturers that are now in the market (2003-13). He consulted Autodesk for the development of Building Performance Simulation Tools for building performance modelling. Emanuele was sustainable design specialist and analyst at the “Performance Design Studio” of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP for 4 years. He developed prefabricated facades prototypes with a spin-off of Gehry Technologies. He won several sustainable design competitions. His projects and researches are published in magazines such as DETAIL, Architectural Record, Domus.
Emanuele
Naboni
Elham
Abdollahi Ali Beik
PhD, Associate Professor and Member of the Doctoral Program “Energy and Environment” at the Department of Astronautical, Electrical and Energy Engineering, Building Physics and Environmental Engineering Area, SAPIENZA University of Rome, Italy. Research field: Energy and applied energy, thermal and fluid dynamics, acoustics, natural and artificial lighting. Member of national and international research groups supported by Italian and International Institutions (ENEA, CNR, MIUR, IEA, CIE, etc.). He was the member of the Centro Ricerca Progetto San Marco (CRPSM) for Aerospace Projects. Member of the Italian National Research Council-Conservation and Valorisation of the Cultural Heritage. He was senior consultant for the Italian Ministry of the Environment, to support the activities of the Ministry within International Organizations. Responsible of national research activities on lighting and on district heating. He was Member of Technical Committee (TC) CIE-TC 4-52 “Lighting for Pedestrians: empirical data”, CIE-TC 3-46 “Research Roadmap for Healthful Interior Lighting Applications”, CIE-TC 3.49 “Decision Scheme for Lighting Controls for Tertiary Lighting in Buildings”, CIE-TC 3-50 “Lighting quality measures for interior lighting with LED lighting systems”, CIE-TC 3.51 “CIE Standard General Sky guide”, among the others. He was co-chair of CIE JTC4 (Div.3-Div.6) “Benefits of Windows in Buildings during Daylight Hours”. He was the National Committee Member within CIE Div. 6 “Photobiology and Photochemistry”, and the Member of the EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) JPI on Smart Cities. He was the italian key-contact for the IEA Annex 45 (2004-2009) “Energy Efficient Electric Lighting for Buildings”. He is a reviewer for international conferences and scientific journals in fields of Energy and Environment (Energy and Buildings, Building and Environment, etc.), and the author of more than 150 papers published in International and National Conferences and Journals. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Cultural Heritage (Elsevier) and of the International Journal of Photoenergy (Hindawi). He is within the Organizing and Scientific/Technical Committee of national and international conferences (IEEE, IBPSA).
Fabio
Bisegna
Federica Giuliani is a researcher in the Faculty of Engineering at the Università Niccolò Cusano, Rome, Italy. Her research work focuses on design processes and the integration of daylight. She is also an architect and therefore tries to integrate knowledge from her profession into her research work. She profoundly believes in the importance of a holistic approach that can combine design needs and requirements with building technology. She both leads the international projects DAYKE (Daylighting Knowledge in Europe) and NLITED (New Level of Integrated TEchniques for Daylighting education). She is a member of the CIE-Italia and TC 3-54.
Federica
Giuliani
Franz FoFranz Forsberg is an architect with expertise in sustainable environmental design and an expert user of computational design tools. He gained experience working as a bridge between architects and engineers in a wide range of projects throughout Scandinavia. 3 years ago, he co-founded SPACIO, a new generation design tool for architects powered by smart algorithms and AI (www.spacio.ai).rsberg is an architect with expertise in sustainable environmental design and an expert user of computational design tools. He gained experience working as a bridge between architects and engineers in a wide range of projects throughout Scandinavia. 3 years ago, he co-founded SPACIO, a new generation design tool for architects powered by smart algorithms and AI (www.spacio.ai).
Franz
Forsberg
Giulio Antonutto is an Associate Director at Arup’s London Technology team, with 19 years of experience in lighting and digital design. He has worked on a number of Zaha Hadid Architect’s most iconic projects including the London Aquatics Centre and the Investcorp Building at St Antony's College in Oxford, as well as the award-winning Winton Gallery and Copenhagen’s recently opened Cityringen metro line. As a lighting designer, Giulio has worked on a range of projects from concept design through to technical implementation, covering broadcast lighting, product design, daylight and masterplanning. Giulio is passionate about the use and development of advanced engineering tools in the AEC industry, including machine learning and computational design optimisation. These skills have been particularly useful for the complex geometries and volumes characteristic of Zaha Hadid. Currently leading the Arup University Digital Disruption initiative, his interests lie in the enabling power of technology and the most creative opportunities it offers.
Giulio
Antonutto
Hillevi Hemphälä PhD BSc Optometry Research area is Visual Ergonomics and the impact of Light on human beings. Hillevi has initiated a project where a new visual ergonomics risk assessment method, VERAM, has been developed. VERAM contains both subjective ratings and objective risk assessments, with the purpose of finding the factors in the visual environment that cause problems such as headaches, eyestrain and musculoskeletal strain.
Hillevi 
Hemphälä
Johannes holds a PhD in Physics. He’s research focuses on light measurement, mainly on colour and flicker from light sources. He’s responsible for the Lighting Laboratory at Design Sciences, LTH, is the coordinator of the Light Collaboration Network and do teaching in photometry and colorimetry.
Johannes
Lindén
Juliëtte van Duijnhoven is an assistant professor within the Building Lighting group embedded in the unit Building Physics and Services of the department of the Built Environment (TU/e). She brings in expertise on measuring and evalulating lighting conditions in and around the built environment. She works on developing and advancing methods to gather personal lighting conditions of individuals to further progress the insights on the effects of light on human health, performance, and wellbeing. Her main aim is to create sustainable lighting solutions in the built environment incorporating the individual differences in light exposure patterns. She mostly focuses on (home) office environments. Juliëtte is currently involved as mentor in the LIGHTCAP project (https://lightcap.eu/) and as WP2 leader in the DESL project (http://www.erasmusplusdesl.com/). Within the TU/e, Juliëtte is member of the Health in the Built Environment (HitBE) team as well as member of the Intelligent Lighting Institute (ILI). Outside the TU/e, Juliëtte chairs the core team indoor lighting at the Dutch association of light (NSVV). In addition, Juliëtte is active within the CIE (https://cie.co.at/) as member of JTC18 (lighting ecudation) and JTC20 (wearable alpha-opic dosimetry). Furthermore, she is member of the executive committee of the European Lighting Expert Association (ELE-A).
Juliette
van Duijnhoven
Dr Luca Zaniboni is a Ph.D. Energy Engineer. He is currently working as a Postdoc Researcher at the Technical University of Denmark. His main areas of expertise are indoor human comfort, sustainable and healthy buildings, non-visual and psychological aspects of lighting & daylighting. During his career, he has always been committed in the study of indoor environment for people with special needs (i.e., hospitals, schools, elderly people). He is leading the Marie-Curie funded project SENSEwellbeing, aimed at assessing the proper indoor environmental quality conditions for people on the autism spectrum. He also has teaching and supervising experience at academic level.
Luca
Zaniboni
Mandana S. Khanie is an Assistant Professor in Daylighting and Lighting at the section for Indoor Environment at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). She specializes in daylighting and visual comfort through her research at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), at the Laboratory of Performance-Integrated Design (LIPID), and later on at DTU. Her research and teaching focus on façade strategies, integrated lighting and daylighting strategies, gaze–photometry, human performance, and exposure-response characterization to spectral lighting. Mandana is currently the course responsible for a highly populated course at DTU on Daylighting and Lighting in buildings where different aspects of the two topics from façade strategies, performance, and visual comfort and health potentials to calculations and evaluations related to then are taught through exercises, examples, and cases. Since she joined DTU, she has supervised several master and bachelor students where they have explored indoor quality where light, acoustics, overheating and natural ventilation. She has been funded externally from different resources, which has enabled her initiate a daylighting lab at the section of indoor environment with research and education prospects.
Mandana Sarey Khanie
Marie-Claude Dubois has previously worked as sustainability specialist for White arkitekter (2012-2020) after employments as Associate Professor (2003-2010) at Laval University’s School of Architecture in Canada and senior researcher (2001-2003) at the Danish Building Research Institute, Denmark. Main author of the book “Daylighting and lighting under a Nordic Sky”, she has contributed to the design and environmental certification of several buldings in Scandinavia and abroad and to a large number of public lectures and scientific communications on daylighting, lighting, building simulation, solar shading, solar energy, and climatic design. She has previously been Subtask leader of International Energy Agency Task 50 (Lighting Retrofit) and Task 41 (Solar Energy and Architecture). She presently shares her time between Lund University, as Associate Professor at the Department of Building and Environmental Technology and the Department of Biosystems and Technology at the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences in Sweden. She supervises theses and teaches courses related building science, daylighting and lighting in engineering, architecture, design, horticulture, and farming programs.
Marie-Claude
Dubois
Mattias
Magnusson
Myriam Aries is a Professor of Lighting Science at the School of Engineering of Jönköping University (JU) in Sweden. Her expertise lies mainly in the field of dynamic (day)light application, health, visual comfort, well-being and human performance in the built environment. Her research efforts in Lighting Science focus on the interaction between humans and the application/integration of controlled (day)light in diverse architectural environments. It includes the understanding and impact of dynamic, (controlled) lighting products and environments on human work and sleep performance as well as the spill-over effects from one environment to another.
Myriam
Aries
 
Natalia
V. Giraldo
Natalia Sokol is an assistant professor at the Gdansk University of Technology with 15 years of lighting design and teaching experience. Her work with stained glass, luminaire and lighting design led her to study daylight within the built environment. Natalia’s research for the Faculty of Architecture focuses on daylight analysis tools (PhD), user’s perception of variously lit environments, daylighting for urban design areas and daylight education. In her work with students she aims to reveal the creative, scientific and a fun side of the lighting profession. Natalia is actively engaged in daylight educational projects DAYKE (Daylighting Knowledge in Europe) – the precursor of NLITED as well as in Daylight Academy’s Educational Package on Daylight, IEA and CIE reports on daylight and electric light
Natalia
Sokol
In the past nine years, Niko has been working in the field of lighting and daylighting, mixing technical and observed-based evaluation. He blends his background in engineering with principles and methods from the domains of environmental psychology and architecture. His research focuses on the role of user in driving energy saving for integrated daylighting and electric lighting solutions, targeting mainly at the role of controls. He participated in the International Energy Agency (IEA) SHC Task 50 and led Subtask D of IEA SHC Task 61 / EBC Annex 77 together with Prof Werner Osterhaus, Aarhus University. He teaches in several courses related to daylighting and lighting at graduate level at Lund University, as well as on exchange in other universities (La Sapienza, Italy and Royal University of Bhutan). He recently co-authored the book "Daylighting and lighting under a nordic sky", available in most of online book shops.
Niko
Gentile
Architect and daylight certification specialist at ACC glass and facade consultants in Sweden. Paul is team leader to a group of six daylight certification specialists. He is principal author of three key reports regarding the modernization of Sweden’s daylight regulations and also involved in the development of daylight criteria for the Nordic Svanen, Miljöbyggnad and Breeam-SE certification systems. He serves as one of Swedish Standard Institute's representatives for development of the European daylight standard EN 17037 and helped to formulate the LEED pilot credit for Daylight for Nordic Projects. He is Sweden Green Building Council's and Svanen Nordic label’s designated expert on Daylight and currently serves on BRE’s technical working group for development of daylight credits. He is a frequent author and lecturer on the subject of daylight and founder of ‘Svensk dagsljusberäkning’ (Swedish daylight calculation) with more than 500 members on LinkedIn.
Paul
Rogers
Pimkamol Mattsson is associate senior lecturer at the department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University. She is with Environmental research group. Her lighting research concerns individuals’ use of lighting and lighting controls, and how these affects energy use and mental health. The research has been conducted in different types of environments (such as home, preschool, healthcare, office and urban environments) applying theories and methods from design, technology and psychology disciplines. Pimkamol is also interested in the design of built environments from both users’ and professionals’ perspectives. Her research relates to how energy-efficiency design and solutions interact with building users including young children, persons with vision impairment as well as older adults. She has been teaching in architecture and industry design programs, lecturing on light and colour, and their impacts on individuals.
Pimkamol
Mattsson
 
Thiago is a specialist with over six years of experience in environmental building design in Sweden. He holds a master’s degree in high-performance buildings from Lund University and has substantial experience in the architecture and construction industry. Currently, he serves as a project leader at Ramboll in Stockholm. Thiago is a certified Miljöbyggnad 4.0 professional and a LEED Green Associate. Throughout his career, Thiago has specialized in daylight assessments across various scales and has worked extensively with different certification systems. He possesses deep knowledge of integrating daylight into the design process and has developed innovative tools and processes to enhance the understanding and assessment of daylight. His thesis on daylight in courtyards won the Best Poster Award at the CISBAT 2019 conference, highlighting his commitment to advancing research in this field. Thiago is passionate about energy-efficient building design, low-carbon solutions, and leveraging digital tools to seamlessly integrate environmental sustainability into the design process.
Thiago
Ferreira
Tiziano Rumori is a lead design architect at Gottlieb Paludan Architects, holding the LEED AP BD+C credential. He possesses a double master's degree in Sustainable Architecture from IUAV University of Venice and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. Additionally, he completed a postgraduate master's program at the SOS School of Mario Cucinella. Tiziano's professional experience includes roles as an architect at Elemental Alejandro Aravena in Chile, Adept, and C.F. Møller in Denmark.
Tiziano
Rumori
Degreed “Summa cum laude” in Architecture with a thesis on visual comfort, PhD in “Building Physics” with a thesis on daylight simulation through sun/sky simulators. In 2006-07, post-doc fellowship at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada). He’s currently an Associate Professor for the Department of Energy of the Politecnico di Torino. Research topics concern the integration of electric lighting and daylighting for both energy saving and comfort and health for the occupants of indoor and outdoor spaces (visual and non-visual effects of light). Research is carried out innovative responsive façades (microalgae as shading systems, responsive glazing – thermochromic or electrochromic), through field analyses (measurements and surveys through questionnaires), software simulations and experiments in test-rooms or real environments. He gives lectures in many courses (degree, post-degree, PhD) on lighting and daylighting, sustainable architecture and planning, ergonomics. He authored over 80 scientific papers, published in international Journals, receiving the Leon Gaster Award for the best paper published (2010) on ‘Light Research & Technology’, and the best paper award for a paper published in Applied Energy (2019). He’s author of the handbook ‘Guide on daylighting design’, and of 3 paragraphs of the ‘Lighting design handbook’ and of 1 paragraph of the book “Sustainable indoor lighting”. He’s part of CIE (Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage). He’s associate editor of ‘Journal of Daylighting’ and he serves as reviewers for several international journals.
Valerio RM
Lo Verso
 
Veronica Garcia-Hansen is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Built Environment. Her background is in Architecture design and building science. Her principal area of research focuses on the interplay between building design and performance, visual and thermal comfort and human health and wellbeing. She uses innovative research methodologies that facilitate the collection of large data sets of physical conditions (lighting levels, brightness, temperature, air velocity, occupancy), ethnographic approaches to study occupant behaviour and self-reported data (preferences, wellbeing) using ubiquitous sensors and technologies, finding patterns and solutions employing machine learning algorithms and optimisation procedures. A/Prof. Garcia-Hansen has specific expertise in high-performance building envelopes and control strategies (including the design of innovative daylighting devices), glare from daylighting, natural ventilation, indoor environmental quality monitoring, post occupancy evaluation (POE) of the luminous environment, lighting modelling, visual and non-visual effects of lighting on health and wellbeing, virtual reality (VR) for qualitative assessment of building occupants’ experiences and preferences. A/Prof. Garcia-Hansen is a 2020 Johnson & Johnson Scholar. She was acknowledged internationally by the prestigious WiSTEM2D (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing, and Design) Scholar award by Johnson & Johnson (USA). The $250k grant to “create healing environments in hospitals through efficient lighting design” is one of only six awards across the globe awarded among 550 applications, identifying “global women leading in both their research fields and leading as mentors”.
Veronica 
Garcia-Hansen
Virgilio
Ciancio