Manuel Spitschan
Dr Manuel Spitschan is a Max Planck Research Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen (Germany), with a joint appointment as Professor of Chronobiology & Health at the Technical University of Munich. After studies in psychology at University of St Andrews in Scotland (UK), he completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania (US). Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University, he joined the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford in 2017, where he remained until 2021. His research focuses on the visual and non-visual effects of light on humans and how to study them in lab and field. In addition to his research activities, he is a member of the Daylight Academy, the immediate past Chair of the OSA Color Technical Group, and active in two Technical Committees of the International Commission on Illumination (CIE).