Prof Laura Bellia

Brief Bio

Dr. Laura Bellia is a full professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II. Since 2014 she is Official Member of the CIE Division 1 (Commissione Internationale de L'Eclairage): Vision and Color, representing Italy. She acted as Judge online in 2010, 2011 and 2014 for IESNA (Illuminating Engineering Society of North America)Illumination Awards. She is designated as member of "Board of Directors" representing Italy in the International Conference "Lux Europa" for the period 2013-2017. she is a member of several orgnizations: AIDI, IESNA , AICARR, CIE Italy, CIE, SIOF, and IBPSA Italy member. Her interests of research are about environmental controls with particular attention towards thermal and hygrometric conditions and lighting. Lighting represents today her main interest and her research activity is focused on analysis of visual environment, visual comfort, color quality and non visual effects of light. Furthermore, she is now carrying out experimental researches about perceived and measured colors under LED sources with different correlated color temperature.

Research areas

• Environmental controls (visual environment, visual comfort, color quality and non visual effects of light)
• Effect of light on humans in presence of light sources (LED, fluorescent and daylight)
• Luminance maps analysis and luminance-brightness relationships

Affiliations

Proffesor
University of Naples Federico II
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, Naples, Italy
Email: laura.bellia@unina.it