Ass. Prof. Katharina Wulff

In my work on human behaviour and its physiological underpinnings, daylight conveys temporal order for highly dynamic brain functions and peripheral systems, enabling survival by adaptation to seasonal changes from the equator to arctic regions.

Daylight Academy projects I worked on

Winter School “Perspectives on Daylight” (2019), The role of daylight for humans, Daylight and green cities, Daylight Ambassadors, Educational package on daylight, Documentary film (by EPFL film makers), Can daylight protect children from myopia?

Good to know about me

I could also have worked as

If it wouldn’t be Science, it would be Art – I am highly sensitive to textures and sound, so I guess it would have been musical composition.

I would have loved to have a coffee with

Karl von Frisch

Most beautiful song of all time

On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter

Disciplines

Main discipline

Biology

Other disciplines

Anthropology, Architecture, Art, Engineering and Technology, Mathematics, Medicine, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry, Psychology, Tourism, Pediatrics, Statistics

Fields of expertise

Chronobiology, Circadian Neuroscience, Sleep Research, Vision Science, Behavioural Brain Sciences