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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
Person: UD : Assistant Professor
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Sila Akman Asik, MSc
- Built Environment, Building Lighting - Education/Research Officer
Person: OBP : Supportive and management staff
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Juliëtte van Duijnhoven
- Built Environment, Building Lighting - Assistant Professor
- Built Environment, Health in the Built Environment
Person: UD : Assistant Professor, PD : Postdoc
Projects
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OptiLight
Linnartz, J. M. G., Bonarius, J. H., de Kort, Y. A. W., 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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Light exposure behaviour assessment (leba): a novel self-reported instrument to capture light exposure-related behaviour
Siraji, M. A., Lazar, R. R., van Duijnhoven, J., Schlangen, L. J. M., Haque, S., Kalavally, V., Vetter, C., Glickman, G., Smolders, K. & Spitschan, M., 8 Feb 2022, CIE Australia Lighting Research Conference 2022. CIE, p. 24 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic
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Shared control in office lighting systems
Lashina, T. A., 13 May 2022, Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. 196 p.Research output: Thesis › Phd Thesis 1 (Research TU/e / Graduation TU/e)
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10 tips for lighting the home workplace
van Duijnhoven, J. & Visser, R., May 2021Research output: Book/Report › Report › Professional
Prizes
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Bachelor lecturer of the year 2017
Rosemann, A. L. P. (Recipient), 7 Jun 2018
Prize: Other › Scientific
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Activities
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AI for personal light exposure?
Juliëtte van Duijnhoven (Speaker)
9 Dec 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
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Lighting Research and Technology (Journal)
Mariëlle P.J. Aarts (Editorial board member)
Dec 2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Publication peer-review › Scientific
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Workshop: Light up your workplace!
Juliëtte van Duijnhoven (Speaker)
22 Nov 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional
Press / Media
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NSVV webinar: Thuiswerken in het juiste licht
16/07/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Personal lighting conditions of office workers
1/06/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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NSVV webinar: HCL/integrative lighting: onderzoek naar persoonlijke lichtcondities aan de TU/e
27/05/20
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 Sep 2019Supervisor: Aarts, M. (Supervisor 1), van Loenen, E. (Supervisor 2) & Morsink, K. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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