Trailblazers & Icons: Dr. Mark Rea

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Trailblazers and Icons is an inspiring and informative series of interviews with some of the lighting communities’ most recognized thought leaders, teachers and practitioners and others. The interviews elicit from each interviewee their major contributions to lighting and their perspective on some of the major issues currently facing the lighting industry. This video features Dr. Mark Rea.

Mark Rea discusses the state of lighting education today, the need for revised discussion on lighting metrics, levels and need for action now.

The views and opinions expressed in this series are those of the interviewee and do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of the IES and its staff. This video does not qualify for a CEU.

Mark Rea

Director of the Lighting Research Center and Professor of Architecture and Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Mark S. Rea, as Professor of Architecture and Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and now as a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, I have been involved in modeling the human visual response to light, including a model of suprathreshold visual performance and of mesopic vision. My research team published the first models of both murine and human circadian phototransduction with application to Alzheimer’s disease research. I led the development of analytical techniques to quantify circadian disruption from rest/activity and light/dark patterns in humans that can be applied to animal models. I served as the Director of the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer from 1988 to 2017 and have experience overseeing budgets, staff, and communications with sponsoring agencies such as the NIH. I have published more than 250 scientific and technical articles related to circadian rhythms, vision, human factors, lighting technologies, and applications. I was the editor-in-chief of the 8th and 9th editions of the Illuminating Engineering Society Lighting Handbook, the primary technical reference for the lighting industry.

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