News & Events

Stay updated with the latest news, events, and workshops from the GLC research initiative.

Upcoming Event Series

LightLogR Training Series 2025–2026

Open and reproducible analysis of light exposure and visual experience data - Online course

A set of free, live online courses designed for researchers working with wearable light and visual experience data in R.

Are you a Post-doc, PhD student, data scientist, or research-active academic working with myopia, circadian rhythms, or wearable time-series light data in R?

Join our practical, reproducible, and interactive tutorials covering two learning tracks – Beginner and Advanced – each delivered via Zoom.

Beginner

Beginner Course

Part 1: 07 October 2025
Part 2: 04 March 2026

Topics: Tidy data workflows, preprocessing, metric calculation, visualisation, merging auxiliary data, photoperiod analysis

Advanced

Advanced Course

Part 1: 09 December 2025
Part 2: 06 May 2026

Topics: Merging light with sleep and auxiliary streams, advanced visualisations, conditional metrics, time-zone handling, spectral/distance measures

Format

90-minute live Zoom webinars (introduction, demonstration, Q&A)

Offered twice daily: 08:30–10:00 and 18:00–19:30 (CET/CEST)
To support global participation, each session is offered twice on the same day

Dedicated Q&A with the package maintainer

Certificate of participation (microcredential) awarded after completing both parts in a track

Past Events

June 17, 2025

World Health Organization International Advisory Committee Meeting on Non-Ionizing Radiation

Our Principal Investigator, Manuel Spitschan PhD, shared insights on how everyday light exposure influences sleep, mood, metabolic and mental health, and why light should be treated as a vital factor in public health policy and guidance.

Virtual Event International Advisory Committee

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May 22, 2025

Launch of Light for Public Health Initiative

This initiative was sparked by the Ladenburg Roundtable, where international experts built consensus and a path from research to real life. The result: 26 evidence-based statements to help healthcare professionals, educators, urban planners, and public health leaders put healthy lighting into practice.

International Expert Collaboration

Visit lightforpublichealth.org →

April 04, 2025

KNUST / TUM-Ghana delegation

Our team visited Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi (KNUST) in Ghana, supported by the Technical University of Munich Global Incentive Fund (TUM GIF).

Together with our collaborators we explored an extensive dataset on everyday light exposure they collected in Ghana as part of the MeliDos project and discussed how we can bridge key knowledge gaps around light's impact on circadian and ocular health.

Kumasi, Ghana 8 Participants

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March 26, 2025

Interactive Workshop on Visual Experience

We are committed to building solutions that foster broad collaboration and big impact! On 26 March 2025, we opened our first collaborative workshop, joined by colleagues from across the globe.

We sat down for an engaging conversation about how we collect and analyse data currently and about future directions. From smart watches to contact lenses fitted with sensors, our session highlighted a shared need for standardization and a privacy-first mindset when approaching data collection and storage.

Online (Worldwide) Representatives from 9 countries

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February 05, 2025

GLC Kicks Off

The GLC team assembled in our Munich office to celebrate the launch of our new project. With big goals, the team dove headfirst into reimagining how light exposure data is collected, stored, processed, and analyzed.

In keeping with our focus on light, we closed the day with a visit to Luisa Baldinucci's multi-sensory installation "Afterglow" at Haus der Kunst - much more to come, stay tuned!

Munich, Germany GLC Core Team

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