Prof. Barbara Szybinska Matusiak

Brief Bio

Professor Barbara Szybinska Matusiak has seven years architectural practice. During this period she won several closed architectural competitions in Norway. She joined the Faculty of Architecture at NTNU in 1994 as a research fellow. Her doctoral project was devoted to daylighting in linear atrium buildings at high latitudes (finished 1998). Since then she has been involved in many Norwegian and international scientific projects dealing with daylighting and artificial lighting in architecture, e.g. project manager of two large RCN projects: “DayLighting” and “HOME” and the partner/member of SYN-TES, the Nordic network. She is also strongly involved in the activities of the international organizations: CIE, AIC and IEA and she has been the Norwegian representative in the CEN technical committee working with the proposal of a new European standard for daylighting in buildings. She designed the artificial sky and artificial sun for the Daylight laboratory (constructed 2000-2002) and the newest version of the full-scale room laboratory ROMLAB (finished 2006). Her teaching activities (master classes) are devoted to daylight, artificial light and colour in architecture. She is the supervisor for four PhD-candidates and one post.doc. at the Faculty of architecture and design. She has been an opponent for many PhD-projects and the reviewer for a number of international scientific journals and conferences. She established Light & Colour Group at the Faculty of Architecture at NTNU in 2011 and had led the group since then. Since the group has produced research at a high scientific level, is very active in research dissemination and has developed a large national and international network, it got the center status in 2017: Light & Colour Centre, NTNU. She is the member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) and the member of the international Daylight Academy (DLA)

Research areas

• Daylighting
• light and colour in architecture
• Color examination

Affiliations

Professor
NTNU
Steinåsen 44b, Trondheim, Norway
Email: barbara.matusiak@ntnu.no
Tel: +4741809981
Website: https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/barbara.matusiak

Publications

Window Size Effects on Subjective Impressions of Daylit Spaces: Indoor Studies at High Latitudes Using Virtual Reality
Journal: LEUKOS
Published: 2020

Daylight: What makes the difference?
Journal: Lighting Research & Technology
Published: 2019

Daylight Transport Systems for Buildings at High Latitudes
Journal: Journal of Daylighting
Published: 2019

Towards new design of laser cut acrylic panels for windows
Journal: Journal of Daylighting
Published: 2019

Toward colour rendering method of window glass
Journal: Color Research and Application
Published: 2018

The impact of advanced glazing on colour perception
Journal: Journal of the International Colour Association
Published: 2017

Aesthetic perception of a small office with different daylighting systems
Journal: Indoor and Built Environment
Published: 2017

Verification of the Accuracy of the Luminance-Based Metrics of Contour, Shape, and Detail Distinctness of 3D Object in Simulated Daylit Scene by Numerical Comparison with Photographed HDR Images
Journal: LEUKOS
Published: 2017