Our Resshaya Murukesu selected for Female Science Talents Intensive Track 2026

With only 20 participants chosen from 629 highly qualified applicants worldwide, Resshaya joins the Female Science Talents Intensive Track 2026, a prestigious year-long programme by the Falling Walls Foundation, supported by The Elsevier Foundation, Bayer Foundation and Volkswagen Stiftung.

Elaine Fischer travels to Singapore to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) 2026

The Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) brought together 409 young scientists from 57 countries, spanning a wide range of scientific disciplines.

Lumi’s Delight - a scientific Comic Book for young readers aged 6-10 years and all adults young at heart!

Lumi is an educational comic that follows Lumi, a curious ray of sunlight, on its journey from the Sun to Earth. Along the way, Lumi explores how daylight interacts with the natural world, visiting a variety of ecosystems and learning how light influences life on our planet.

Carolina Guidolin attends the Fe|male Brain Summer School at the University of Tübingen

From 22 to 26 September, our lab member Carolina Guidolin attended the Fe|male Brain: Bridging the Gender Data Gap in Mental Health Summer School at the University of Tübingen.

Our experience at Soapbox Science Tübingen

Last weekend, two members of our research group, Dr. Maydel Fernandez-Alonso and Carolina Guidolin, stepped out of the lab and into the heart of Tübingen to take part in Soapbox science.

Our team is growing with new summer interns joining the lab

Every year, the lab welcomes summer interns from around the world to work with us, usually through structured programmes. This year, we have a total of four interns joining.

Can VR headsets be used in circadian research?

A new publication from Dr. Fernandez-Alonso introduces an innovative solution to a common challenge in circadian and photobiology research: precisely controlling and standardising light stimuli in experimental settings.

Launch of Light for Public Health Initiative

A global campaign turning decades of science into accessible, actionable guidance on how light impacts our health and well-being.

Ever wondered how to deal with darkness?

Modeling and Visualization of Zero-Inflated Personal Light Exposure Data on a Logarithmic Scale

Night owl or early bird? Science communcation roadshow kicked off

Roadshow explores the impact of light on the circadian clock

Collaborative MSc student visit to TUMCREATE

TUM MSc student Julia Woerle visited TUMCREATE Singapore

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

Student visit to NUDZ supported by the Bayerisch-Tschechische Hochschulagentur (BTHA)

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

Dr. Anna M. Biller visits Stanford University for knowledge exchange

Visit to Stanford University to build collaborations

Launch of our new podcast Light O’Clock

Podcast delves into the science of how light affects our biological clock

New paper on power analysis for melatonin suppression experiments

Article provides a principled approach for selecting sample sizes in melatonin suppression experiments

New paper in Annals of Medicine

Article discussed selecting control conditions for light-based interventions

Optica Incubator on wearable light loggers

Experts in wearable light loggers come together in Washington, DC

Carolina Guidolin attends Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS)

Carolina Guidolin was one of TUMCREATE’s five representatives

New preprint on power analysis for personal light exposure measurements

Novel framework for calculating statistical power for personal light exposure measurements

Research Group attends Applied Vision Association (AVA) Christmas Meeting

Receipt of David Marr Medal and poster presentation

Johannes Zauner Receives LiTG Early Career Award

Award for work on mechanisms underlying ipRGC functions

Order now: Daylight Academy Booklet about the 2022 Summer School “Measuring Light and Illumination”

Booklet collects proceedings of Daylight Academy Summer School

Fall edition of our seminar series kicking off

Seminar series brings together cutting-edge knowledge on sleep and circadian health

Research funding for Dr. Anna Biller from the German Sleep Society (DGSM)

Project will investigate long-term effects of everyday life on sleep architecture

Maydel Fernandez-Alonso wins ECR Presentation Prize at Rank Prize Symposium

Success for her presentation on her research project on binocular integration in non-visual function

Presentations at the 30th CIE Quadrennial Meeting in Ljubljana

Posters and talks at Ljubljana meeting on light and lighting

New member of the Circadian Data Science Team: Dr. Johannes Zauner

Dr. Johannes Zauner joins the Circadian Data Science team at TUM

Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative Fellows from South Korea join MPI

The Max Planck Research Group Translational Sensory and Circadian Neuroscience welcomes two undergraduates from South Korea through the Max Planck POSTECH/Korea Research Initiative

Dr. Juliëtte van Duijnhoven (Eindhoven University of Technology) visits TUM and MPI

Knowledge exchange and building collaborative potential was the focus of the EuroTech-supported visit

TUM Digital Health Technology Innovation Lab: Teaching interdisciplinary digital health

For the first time, the TUM Digital Health Technology Innovation Lab, a joint venture between the Professorship of Chronobiology & Health at TUM and McKinsey, took place in the summer semester of 2023

2023 Lab Retreat: Taking stock and looking forward

We recently wrapped up a 3-day lab retreat, fostering a collaborative, inclusive and inventive environment

Girma Sisay Negashe joins the MPI as a CaCTüS Intern

We are happy to welcome Girma Sisay Negashe, who is joining us as a summer intern as part of the CaCTüS programme (Computation and Cognition Tübingen Summer Internship)

Summer interns join TUM as part of the Practical Research Experience Program (TUM PREP)

The Professorship for Chronobiology & Health at TUM is delighted to welcome Hannah Ulman and Ojus Sharma as part of the Practical Research Experience Program (TUM PREP)

MPI tSCN participates in the University of Tuebingen Staffellauf

On Saturday, 24 June 2023, we came together and participated in the University of Tübingen’s 100 km Staffellauf

Manuel Spitschan as Expert Witness to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee

Manuel Spitschan was invited by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee to present his expertise on the facts of artificial light and its effects on human health to members of the British Parliament

momenTUM team admitted to OLS-7

OLS program facilitates open innovation

New article on verification and validation of light loggers

New article in Digital Health on making sure light loggers are verified and validated

New video showcasing our research

New video showcasing our research at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Funding to support exchange with NRC

Award from Bavarian Research Alliance will support international environment light measurement campaign