To catalyse any means necessary for the use of (day-)light to improve general health, quality of life and living conditions across the life span, based on biological, psychological and societal needs. For this purpose, the impact of daylight will be systematically assessed, and new tools, applications will be validated and implemented in the fields of vision science and ophthalmology, healthy ageing and clinical practice.
The Sleep Congress of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) takes place every two years. This year, 3688 participants met in Seville, Spain, from September 24 to 27 to discuss the latest findings in sleep research in 42 symposia and 160 presentations.
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This year's meeting of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR) took place from June 20 to 22 in Prague, Czech Republic. The diverse scientific program consisted of five symposia, a presentation round for young researchers, three discussion rounds, annual reviews, poster sessions and a data blitz.
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This years’ Daylight Academy (DLA) Conference took place far up north in Trondheim, Norway from 30-31 May.
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The iHCDP team has been working on it for a while now: the Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) course in Light and Chronobiology. We are excited to share this news now although there are quite a few steps to take until we are ready to start.
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Last week, on 27 November, we held our second iHCDP retreat in 2023. We met at the Novotel in Freiburg, Germany.
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* Screenshot from the video produced and published by the Daylight Academy (DLA)
The Daylight Academy organized their annual Daylight Awareness Week from 13-17 November 2023. As part of this event, iHCDP Director Prof. Dr. Christian Cajochen spoke about the awareness of the effects of daylight throughout history.
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Prof. Dr. Manuel Spitschan, Head of the Professorship of Chronobiology & Health at the Technical University of Munich and Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, was awarded the 2023 David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association (AVA).
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We are happy to announce that our Integrative Human Circadian Daylight Platform already turns 2 years old. In September 2021 our team started mapping out the concept and preparing the work packages for each of the 3 modules.
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Several members of the iHCDP participated in the Interdisciplinary Summer School of the Daylight Academy from 15-19 August 2022 in Chexbres, Switzerland. One of the results is this impressive booklet on Measuring Light and Illumination.
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From May 30 to June 1, 2023, we participated in the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR) in Lausanne.
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