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Research areas

Mechanisms underlying photoreception

How do the retina and brain process light and environmental information?

Circadian modulation of vision

How is our vision and visual perception influenced by the circadian clock?

Natural scene statistics

What is the “visual world” around us made out of?

Meta-science and reproducibility

How can we make our science more robust?

Circadian and sleep data science

What can we learn about circadian and sleep physiology from big-data approaches?

Optimising light exposure, circadian and sleep health

How can we support people make optimal decisions about light exposure and their circadian clock?

Research facilities

At the Cyberneum at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, we have experimental facilities for evening and circadian studies for running three participants in parallel.

Equipment

To support our research, we use the following equipment:

  • Spectroradiometer JETI spectraval 1501

    Westboro Photonics WP690E

    Klein K10-A

  • Condor ActTrust 2

  • BodyCap e-Celsius Performance

    PVT-192

  • Mentalab Explore

  • Metropsis Research

    HTC Vive Pro Eye

    NVBL Binocular Maxwellian view system

    OCULUS HMC-Anomaloskop

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