IEA SHC Solar Academy: Low Carbon, High Comfort Integrated Lighting (1)

Dr Mandana S. Khanie is Director of the MSc Light and Lighting and Lecturer in Health, Well-being and Comfort in Sustainable Buildings at UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), The Bartlett. Trained in architecture and building science (EPFL PhD, Chalmers MSc), in her research, she explores the effect of visual and non-visual light exposure on comfort and health through human responses. She serves as Principal Investigator of multiple projects and leads on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Innovate UK, developing an AI-driven knowledge base for collaborative design. Dr Khanie serves as Chair of CIE JTC 18 on Lighting Education, co-leads the subtask “Visual and Non-Visual Requirements” of IEA SHC Task 70/Annex 90. She is a member of Daylight Academy. Previously, she has worked at DTU Denmark, EPFL Switzerland, Fraunhofer ISE, Germany, and with industry partners (AFREY Group, K-Konsult AB, Sweden).

Presentation: Visual and Non-Visual Lighting Requirements for Decarbonisation: Collected Scientific Evidence and Emerging Insights​

Niko Gentile is an Associate Professor at the Division of Energy and Building Design at Lund University, where he also serves as Programme Director for the MSc in Energy-efficient and Environmental Building Design. His research focuses on daylighting and electric lighting in buildings, integrating building physics, environmental psychology, and architectural design to evaluate both environmental performance and human experience. Gentile’s work addresses lighting quality, user interaction with lighting systems, solar access in urban environments, and the life-cycle impacts of integrated daylight and electric lighting solutions. He is actively involved in international research collaborations, including several IEA SHC Task (Task 50, 61, and 70), the daylighting education platform NLITED, and co-authored the book Daylighting and Lighting Under a Nordic Sky, which examines daylighting design challenges and opportunities in high-latitude contexts.

Presentation: Application and Case studies – How do concepts prove in practice

After completing his doctorate in Technical Mathematics, David Geisler-Moroder worked for 12 years as a project manager and head of the competence field daylight at Bartenbach. Since 2023, he has been as research associate at the Unit for Energy Efficient Building at the University of Innsbruck. His main work and research areas include the development of simulation methods, the interface between daylighting and building physics, daylighting systems, (day)lighting effects on humans, and lighting technology principles. David leads the Subtask “Digitalized Lighting Solutions” in the IEA SHC Task 70 “Low Carbon, High Comfort Integrated Lighting”, as well as the ISO/CIE standardization project 25176 on “BSDF data generation for complex fenestration systems”.

Presentation: Digitalized Lighting Solutions – State of the Art in Technologies and Design workflows

Group manager Lighting Technology and Passive Solar Systems in the Department of Energy Efficiency and Indoor Climate at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP in Stuttgart. Member and coordinator of several standardization commissions and working groups on energy efficient lighting. Speaker of the scientific technical Committee of the German LiTG on the topic “daylighting”. 2013 – 2015: Operating agent IEA-SHC Task 50 “Advanced Lighting Solutions for Retrofitting Buildings”. 2018 – 2021 Operating agent IEA-SHC Task 61 / EBC Annex77 “Integrated Solutions for Daylighting and Electric Lighting”. Since 2023 Operating agent IEA-SHC Task 70 / EBC Annex90 “Low Carbon, High Comfort Integrated Lighting”.

Presentation: Introduction to IEA SHC Task 70 / Annex 90 - Status of lighting and decarbonisation 

Bärbel Epp is the founder and managing director of the German consultancy solrico. She is responsible for the international newsletter of the web portal www.solarthermalworld.org, reporting exclusively about market and technology trends in the solar heating and cooling sector globally. solrico also created the first online World Map of SHIP suppliers (SHIP = Solar Heat for Industrial Processes) and carries out surveys among the around 70 companies listed on the world map annually. Bärbel Epp graduated in Physics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.