Profile

I graduated in 1982 from Leicester University with a degree in Physics. In my first year after graduation, I worked as a Research Assistant with the X-Ray Astronomy Group at Leicester. I then taught A-Level physics at Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, Leicester from 1985 to 1990, whilst at the same time completing a part-time MPhil in Astrophysics (Models of Emission Line Profiles in Active Galaxies, 1988).

In 1990 I began as a Research Assistant at De Montfort University (Leicester) and so commenced my interest in daylight modelling. Between 1993 and 1996 I was employed by Aberdeen University Dept of Zoology working as a Research Assistant on the modelling of marine ecosystems. I returned to Leicester and De Monfort University in 1996 where I was employed as a Research Fellow (1996-2000), Senior Research Fellow (2000-2009) and finally Reader in Daylight Modelling (2009-2012). In 2012 I joined Loughborough University in the newly-created post ‘Professor of Building Daylight Modelling’, and was made Emeritus Professor on retirement in 2021. 

Professional affiliations

  • Fellow of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), 2017. 
  • Fellow of the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), 2012.

Awards

  • Dufton Silver Medal – CIBSE, 2022.
  • Innovative Application Award – International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), 2017. 
  • Leon Gaster Award – Society of Light and Lighting (SLL), 2016. 
  • UK Lighting Award – Society of Light and Lighting, 2012.

External activities

  • UK Principal Expert, European Committee for Standardisation CEN/TC 169 WG11 (2011-2019). 
  • Chair, CIBSE Daylight Group.
  • Associate Editor, Lighting Research & Technology Journal.  
  • Editorial Panel, Energy & Buildings Journal.