Dear Member of the Swissphotonics family

We are pleased to announce and invite you to one of our weekly online zoom events.
 

Light Pollution

Lighting installations have the task to illuminate target surfaces with a desired intensity and spectral distribution at specific times. This means that every photon that is not on a trajectory between a lighting fixture and its target surface contributes to light pollution!

We will take a look at the current situation, how light pollution impacts our environment, and why it strongly depends on where the photons are being generated.

Speaker

Dr. Harald Pier
Dr. Harald Pier received his degree in Physics (1994) from University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and his doctorate (1999) from EPFL. From 1999-2006 he was working at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property. In 2006, he joined Philips Lumileds, where he was supporting the European automotive industry in their efforts to integrate LED lighting functions, among them the first LED headlamps. Later, he supported with his team the European lighting industry to adopt LEDs. In 2016, he founded cenogent, a company focusing on light source development and technology and strategy consulting. cenogent's proprietary high performance light sources power VW rallye cars and are being used for minimum light pollution sports field lighting. Harald also serves as an Expert for Innosuisse.

Moderator

Dr. Christian Bosshard
Dr. Christian Bosshard received his degree in Physics (1986) and his doctorate (1991, Silver medal award) from ETH. From 2001-2021 he was working at CSEM, first as Section Head and then as Vice President and Head Photonics. Since 2013 he is Managing Director of Swissphotonics. Christian is a Fellow of America Optica, Board Member of EPIC, and Member of the Board of the University of Basel.

Date
Tuesday, 7 December 2021

Time
12:00 - 13:00

Software
Zoom

Costs
free of charge

Registration only necessary once
This event series requires registration (see link above). We will send you the access information (Zoom-link and ID) by email after the registration.
The Zoom link remains the same every week. If you have already participated once, you do not need to register again for the following meetings.

Deadline for registration
6 December 2021, 12.00 am



Contact cenogent GmbH
Dr. Harald Pier
Managing director cenogent GmbH

Contact Swissphotonics
Dr. Christian Bosshard
Managing director Swissphotonics
+41 79 405 18 26

8 December 2021, Beni Muller + Iris Bollinger