Manuel Spitschan (0000-0002-8572-9268)

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Manuel Spitschan is the Rudolf Mössbauer Assistant Professor of Chronobiology & Health at Technical University of Munich and Max Planck Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. After undergraduate studies in psychology at the University of St Andrews (2009-2012), he completed his PhD on melanopsin sensitivity in the human visual system at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-2016). Following a post-doc at Stanford University (2016-2017), he joined the University of Oxford on a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, through which he collaborated with the Centre for Chronobiology in Basel (2017-2021). He is the current Speaker of the Steering Committee of the Daylight Academy, Chair of the Joint Technical Committee 20 of the CIE and past Chair of the Optica Color Technical Group.

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TUMCREATE: Singapore, SG

Technical University of Munich: Munich, DE

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics: Tübingen, DE

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University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA, US

University of St Andrews: St Andrews, GB

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Optical Society: Washington, DC, US

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Two sides of the same coin: Consequences of caffeine intake during morning light exposure on circadian clock and homeostatic sleep pressure during and beyond adolescence

Ambient and passive collection of sleep and circadian rhythm data in bipolar disorder to understand symptom trajectories and clinical outcomes (AMBIENT- BD).

Lithium's mechanism in bipolar disorder: investigating the light hypersensitivity hypothesis.

Human sensitivity to short-wavelength light in non-image-forming vision: Toward a mechanistic understanding of the impact of blue light on sleep and circadian rhythms

Human sensitivity to short-wavelength light in non-image-forming vision: Toward a mechanistic understanding of the impact of blue light on sleep and circadian rhythms

Determining cerebrovascular reactivity from the pupil flash response

Human sensitivity to short-wavelength light in non-image-forming vision: Toward a mechanistic understanding of the impact of blue light on sleep and circadian rhythms

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The Ecology of Human Sleep (EcoSleep) Cohort Study: Protocol for a longitudinal repeated measurement burst design study to assess the relationship between sleep determinants and outcomes under real‐world conditions across time of year

Joint infrared pupil images and near-corneal-plane spectral light exposure data under natural conditions across the adult lifespan

Stimulus conditions eliciting sneezing in response to bright light

Standardized and calibrated light stimuli via head-mounted displays for investigating the non-visual effects of light

dlmoR: An open-source R package for the dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO) hockey-stick method

Physiologically-relevant light exposure and light behaviour in Switzerland and Malaysia

Regulation of eye movements and pupil size in natural scenes

40 Hz Visual Stimulation During Sleep Evokes Neuronal Gamma Activity in NREM and REM Stages.

Power analysis for personal light exposure measurements and interventions.

Selecting, implementing and evaluating control and placebo conditions in light therapy and light-based interventions

Collecting, detecting and handling non-wear intervals in longitudinal light exposure data

Sneezing in response to bright light exposure: A case study in a photic sneezer

Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Sleep

Behavioural determinants of physiologically-relevant light exposure.

Protocol for a co-design study for the development of a chronotherapeutic mobile health behaviour change intervention targeting light exposure among older adults

How stepping out helped us tune in: finding space and time to &lt;i&gt;think&lt;/i&gt; as an early career researcher.

Investigating light sensitivity in bipolar disorder (HELIOS-BD).

Open-Source Python Module for the Analysis of Personalized Light Exposure Data from Wearable Light Loggers and Dosimeters

Sex and seasonal variations in melatonin suppression, and alerting response to light

Lack of evidence for the contribution of cone photoreceptors to human melatonin suppression and alerting response to light at night

LightLogR: Reproducible analysis of personal light exposure data with an open-source R package

Afternoon to early evening bright light exposure reduces later melatonin production in adolescents

Inclusion, reporting and analysis of demographic variables in chronobiology and sleep research.

Effects of caffeine intake on pupillary parameters in humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Illuminating the future of wearable light metrology: Overview of the MeLiDos Project

Metadata recommendations for light logging and dosimetry datasets

Regulation of pupil size in natural vision across the human lifespan

The Impact of Pupil Constriction on the Relationship Between Melanopic EDI and Melatonin Suppression in Young Adult Males

40 Hz Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials Recovered During Oscillating Transcranial Electrical Stimulation

Overview of wearable light loggers: State-of-the-art and outlook

Reconsidering the spectral distribution of light: Do people perceive watts or photons?

Temporal Sensitivity for Achromatic and Chromatic Flicker across the Visual Cortex.

Within-subjects ultra-short sleep-wake protocol for characterising circadian variations in retinal function

Power Analysis for Human Melatonin Suppression Experiments

Brighter future for light therapy: harmonising the reporting of light interventions in psychiatry

An inventory of human light exposure behaviour.

ENLIGHT: A consensus checklist for reporting laboratory-based studies on the non-visual effects of light in humans

Effects of calibrated blue–yellow changes in light on the human circadian clock

Human-Centric Lighting Research and Policy in the Melanopsin Age

Regulation of pupil size in natural vision across the human lifespan

Usability and Acceptability of a Corneal-Plane α-Opic Light Logger in a 24-h Field Trial

Light exposure behaviors predict mood, memory and sleep quality.

The impact of Alzheimer's disease risk factors on the pupillary light response.

Effects of calibrated blue–yellow (–S+[L+M], +S–[L+M]) changes in light on the human circadian clock

PySilSub: An open-source Python toolbox for implementing the method of silent substitution in vision and nonvisual photoreception research.

Temporal sensitivity for achromatic and chromatic flicker across the visual cortex

Usability and acceptability of a corneal-plane α-opic light logger in a 24-hour field trial

Melanopic irradiance defines the impact of evening display light on sleep latency, melatonin and alertness.

PySilSub: An open-source Python toolbox for implementing the method of silent substitution in vision and non-visual photoreception research

Inclusion, reporting and analysis of demographic variables in chronobiology and sleep research

How stepping out helped us tune in: finding space and time to <i>think</i> as an early career researcher.