Artificial lighting at night is a need for people and a threat to biodiversity. Is it possible to light up the night by protecting human well-being and the natural biological rhythms of flora and fauna?

Date and time: 20.04.23 / h 17.10

Location: Hall 15, Workshop Area

Duration: 45 minutes

Language: English

The panel discussion will be followed at 18:30 by an evening party at our stand.

Moderator: Laura Bellia, Full Professor of Technical Environmental Physics Department of Industrial Engineering

Speakers:

• Steve Fotios / Professor of lighting and visual perception, University of Sheffield (UK)
• GianPiero Bellomo / Technical & RD Director, Tech-Nyx
• Stefano Cavazzani / NTNU, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Trondheim (Norway) / Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova (Italy) / INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Italy)
• Paolo de Bellis / Lighting designer, co-founder of Studio Switch, associate AILD

Laura Bellia

Laura Bellia, MSc, PhD, is full professor of Lighting Technology and Building Physics at the University of Naples Federico II. Her research topics are lighting, daylighting, daylight/electric light controls, integrative lighting, lighting for cultural heritage. She is active in CIE. Member of the Board of Directors of AIDI (Italian Association of Lighting) and Lux Europa. Scientific leader of research projects and agreements. Referee for several international journals and research projects.

Steve Fotios

Steve Fotios is Professor of Lighting and Visual Perception in the school of architecture at the University of Sheffield in the UK. He leads the Lighting Research Group along with Chris Cheal and Jim Uttley. Their research is largely about the effect of lighting on visual perception and visual performance and this is carried out within three areas of focus: lighting to support safe active travel, spatial brightness and research methods. He is also Editor in Chief of Lighting Research and Technology, Assistant Director of CIE Division 4, and founder of the LumeNet symposium for research methods in lighting.

GianPiero Bellomo

Graduated in electrotechnical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, with over 40 years of experience in the professional lighting sector, he has been involved in training, design of large installations, BIM management of MEP systems and applied research of lighting technologies for sport and environmental sustainability. Member of UNI, CEN and ISO. In CEN, he coordinates the CEN WG15 'light pollution' group and GL08 Italian mirror group. In UNI, he leads the groups GL04 Sports Lighting and GL16 Validation of design software and participates in the development of BIM components for lighting in ISO. Currently technical director and head of research and development at Tech-Nyx, he is involved in applied lighting research, with a focus on environmental impact, calculation systems and sports lighting.

Stefano Cavazzani

He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in astronomy from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy, in 2006 and 2014, respectively. He is a Researcher with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway and with the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Padua; he is also associated with Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) as an expert site testing, atmospheric quantum transmission, big data analytics, and development and calibration of instruments and sensors for atmosphere characterization. He actively collaborates with the scientific commissions of the European Space Agency (ESA) through ground and satellite data analysis for the study of cloud cover, light pollution and aerosol with the relative transmission and extinction atmospheric parameters; climate change and forecasting models (Numerical Weather Prediction Model). Furthermore, he also works in development of tools and algorithms for atmospheric turbulence, night sky brightness (NSB), cloud and aerosol detection; sensor and tool calibration through laboratory analysis and correlations between ground and satellite data. He boasts numerous publications in major international scientific journals as first author and participations in the most important international congresses on his research topics.

Paolo de Bellis

Paolo was born in Roma on 06.12.1978, grew up in Piacenza and adopted by Bergamo in 2010. He studied at Politecnico di Milano – architecture faculty, with 1 year experience at Brunel University in London, design faculty, as an exchange student. He landed in the lighting world in 2007 working for a private company in the field in Piacenza. On 2010 he worked in a private company based in Bergamo that provides an internal lighting design studio and on 2015 he runs as office lighting manager for the internal studio set in Brescia. He co-founded Studio Switch on 2019.

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