Mechanisms underlying photoreception
How do the retina and brain process light and environmental information?
Research areas
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:
Light measurements
Spectroradiometer JETI spectraval 1501
Westboro Photonics WP690E
Klein K10-A
Sleep-wake characterisation
Condor ActTrust 2
Physiological measurements
BodyCap e-Celsius Performance
PVT-192
EEG
Mentalab Explore
Stimulus presentation
Metropsis Research
HTC Vive Pro Eye
NVBL Binocular Maxwellian view system
OCULUS HMC-Anomaloskop
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Funding
