
Daylight matters: 2025 Daylight Academy Annual Conference at TUM-IAS in Garching
Active participation from our research group

Erasmus+ research visit by Dr. Altug Didikoglu (12–16 May 2025)
Visit supporting collaborative research

Carolina Guidolin attends Winter school on multi-level modelling
Winter School organized by the EHPS Synergy Network

Natalia Petliak joins team as Research Software Engineer
Supported by Wellcome Trust-funded AMBIENT-BD project

Whitepaper with case studies on non-visual effects of light in industrial settings now available
New recommendations based on case studies for physiologically relevant use of light

Lucien Bickerstaff attends 2025 Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS)
Lucien Bickerstaff was one of TUMCREATE’s ten representatives


Kyungjun Kim joins the MPI as Korea-Germany Junior Research Fellow
Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative enables research experience in Germany

2024 CaCTüS interns push science forward
Three-month visit enabled deep dive into research

KNUST research team visits Tübingen and Munich
Visit funded by the TUM Global Incentive Fund

Season 2 of our podcast Light O’Clock starting 3 September 2024!
New season explores sleep, circadian rhythms and more

Dr. Marie Luise Schreiter joins the Tübingen team
Dr. Schreiter will be leading a new science communication project at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

2024 lab retreat on Zugspitze
Annual lab retreat took place from 7 to 9 August 2024 on Zugspitze

Kickoff of a new collaboration with KNUST (Ghana)
New collaboration to explore the impact of light exposure on health

Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience Unit (MPS/TUM/TUMCREATE) participates in the 35th SLTBR Conference in Prague
Talks and presentations showcased our research

LightLogR, an open-source R package for the analysis of personal light exposure data
New software package helps with the analysis of light exposure data

Science meets art: Guest commentary at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt
“Gastkommentar” (guest commentary) on art and the biological clock

Our podcast Light O’Clock receives two awards to support future seasons
Light O’Clock supported by Circadian Mental Health Network and WissKomm Ambassador Prize

Ladenburg Roundtable on the impact of light on human health
White paper on communicating the evidence on the non-visual effects of light published

Awards at the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) meeting
ECR awards to Dr. Maydel Fernandez-Alonso and a Junior Faculty to Prof. Manuel Spitschan