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Introduction / mission
Major technology advances are enabling smart lighting solutions and LED technology is linking lighting technology to the digital world. This brings a wide range of new challenges.
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Developing truly smart lighting solutions based on an optimal balance
Organisational profile
Building Lighting (BL) is the lighting research group of the Building Physics and Services (BPS) unit at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Research addresses daylight as well as artificial lighting, including both fundamental and applied research, and evolves around people as well as technology. Human Centric Lighting, which refers to lighting systems with some kind of intelligent behavior aiming at enhancing the quality of the built environment for the users. Application domains include work environments, public outdoor spaces and private homes.
The optimal integral design of a building requires bridging gaps and exploring synergies between light and the other physical aspects related to buildings, as well as synergies between light and the non-physical aspects of buildings. This requires knowledge of all human related aspects of lighting as well as the physics of both daylight and artificial lighting. The group works closely within the Intelligent Lighting Institute and associated industrial partners.
Light is essential for human life and functioning. It influences people’s wellbeing in physiological, psychological and biological ways. As such, light is a key element in the design of our buildings and our built environment.
The research areas Building Lighting can be summarized as:
- Light & Energy
- Light & Environment
- Light & Health
Our goal is to help develop applications that optimally balance these three aspects of Human Centric Lighting.
Research covers a wide variety of interrelated topics:
- Visual and non-visual aspects of lighting in building design in general and on office workers and elderly people in particular
- Energy usage and sustainability
- Sustainable and energy efficient buildings in relation to visual and non-visual user demands
- Identifying and analyzing the parameters that lead to the creation of an optimally lit environment, and on the implementation of these parameters in the built environment
- Embedded sensors and actuators that communicate with their environment
- Analyzing collected data to optimize lighting system performance
- Implementation and exploitation of daylight as a design parameter
- Analyzing which light parameters determine whether a building is well or poorly designed
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Profiles
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Mariëlle P.J. Aarts
- Built Environment, Building Lighting - Assistant Professor
- Intelligent Lighting Institute - Assistant Professor
Person: UD : Assistant Professor
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Juliëtte van Duijnhoven
- Built Environment, Building Lighting - Assistant Professor
- Built Environment, Health in the Built Environment
- Intelligent Lighting Institute - Assistant Professor
Person: UD : Assistant Professor, PD : Postdoc
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Myrta Gkaintatzi Masouti
- Built Environment, Building Lighting - Doctoral Candidate
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)
Projects
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OptiLight
Linnartz, J. M. G., Bonarius, J. H., Smolders, K. C. H. J., Vogels, I. M. L. C., Peeters, S. T., Dangol, R., Kruisselbrink, T. W., Özçelebi, T. & de Kort, Y. A. W.
1/11/16 → 31/10/20
Project: Research direct
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Validation of spectral simulation tools in the context of ipRGC-influenced light responses of building occupants
Pierson, C., Aarts, M. P. J. & Andersen, M., 2023, In: Journal of Building Performance Simulation. 16, 2, p. 179-197 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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A simulation tool for building and lighting design considering ipRGC-influenced light responses
Gkaintatzi Masouti, M., Pierson, C., van Duijnhoven, J., Andersen, M. & Aarts, M. P. J., 1 Dec 2022, Building Simulation Nordic 2022. 7 p. 01001. (E3S Web of Conferences; vol. 362).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Kernteam Indoor in the spotlights
van Duijnhoven, J., Laponder, M., Visser, R., Raue, A. & van Empel, M. (ed.), 1 Feb 2022, In: [inst]ALLICHT.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional
Open Access
Prizes
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2nd price Postdoc Association TU/e (PDA) Best Paper Awards
van Duijnhoven, Juliëtte (Recipient), 10 Jun 2021
Prize: TU/e › Other › Scientific
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Bachelor lecturer of the year 2017
Rosemann, Alexander L.P. (Recipient), 7 Jun 2018
Prize: Other › Scientific
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Beste Supervisor, 2021
Aarts, Mariëlle P.J. (Recipient) & van Duijnhoven, Juliëtte (Recipient), 31 May 2022
Prize: TU/e › Other › Scientific
Activities
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Cluster: Offices and Schools (NWA-ORC proposal)
Juliëtte van Duijnhoven (Speaker)
21 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
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Home office lighting
Juliëtte van Duijnhoven (Speaker)
10 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional
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Webinar 'Goed licht voor wie thuis werkt'
Juliëtte van Duijnhoven (Speaker), Catherine Lootens (Speaker) & Jan van Riel (Speaker)
15 Mar 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional
Press/Media
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Energy efficient and smart lighting education seminar
Juliëtte van Duijnhoven, Mariëlle P.J. Aarts, Pramod Bhusal, Grega Bizjak & Matej Bernard Kobav
19/07/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Onvermoeibaar werkt de nachtwerker tegen het dagritme van de samenleving in
23/02/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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NSVV webinar: Thuiswerken in het juiste licht
16/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Student theses
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A Low Cost Calibration Device for the Bee Eye
Author: Heere, J., 25 Aug 2020Supervisor: Kruisselbrink, T. W. (Supervisor 1) & van Duijnhoven, J. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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A Multi-Criteria Proportional Topology Optimization
Author: Plak, T., 25 Aug 2020Supervisor: Wolfs, R. J. M. (Supervisor 1) & Aarts, M. P. J. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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An explorative study on daylight, view and stress in an operating theatre
Author: Weltevrede, A. P., 24 Sept 2019Supervisor: Aarts, M. (Supervisor 1), van Loenen, E. (Supervisor 2) & Morsink, K. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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