“Artificial light in most offices and homes undermines performance, well-being and health; it’s time for change and that starts with a new awareness,” says Marijke Gordijn in an article in the LED Magazine of June 2021. Marijke Gordijn has been arguing for the right light at the right time for years. Read the whole article…
Chrono@Work is proud to participate in the EU Horizon2020 Research Project “ENLIGHTENme”: Exploring the Impact of Urban Lighting and Indoor Lighting on Health and Wellbeing, which started with a kick-off meeting on March 4th– 5th, 2021. For the full press release please read more here: 210224_EnlightenME_Press_Release_C@W
On January 8th, Marijke Gordijn from Chrono@Work and Roelof Hut from the University of Groningen were interviewed by EditieNL about the effects of the COVID-19 related restrictions on sleep. Colleagues recently published that on average people sleep longer and later during the lockdown. However, shortage of sleep and sleeping problems have serious health effects. EditieNL…
In the early morning of December 26th, Marijke Gordijn from Chrono@Work gave an interview on NPO Radio 1 about the role of light for well being and health. This item is especially interesting in the dark winter days around Christmas in our region. The focus of the interview was on the new study we do…
Effects of near-infrared light on humans We are proud to announce that today, November 18th, 2020, Chrono@Work, in collaboration with the department of Chronobiology at the University of Groningen, received the approval of the ethical committee to perform the first-ever long-term study on the effects of pulsed near-infrared (NIR) light on wellbeing and health in…
