Stone, Julia E.
Aubert, Xavier L.
Maass, Henning
Phillips, Andrew J. K.
Magee, Michelle http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6642-0882
Howard, Mark E.
Lockley, Steven W.
Rajaratnam, Shantha M. W.
Sletten, Tracey L.
Article History
Received: 26 November 2018
Accepted: 17 June 2019
First Online: 30 July 2019
Competing Interests
: Ms. Stone has no competing interests to report. Dr. Aubert works at Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands in a project dealing with circadian rhythm management. Dr. Maass works at Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and serves as project leader and program coordinator in the field of sleep solutions incl. circadian rhythm management. Dr. Phillips is a co-investigator on a project for the CRC for Alertness, Safety and Productivity. Dr. Magee served as a Project Leader in the CRC for Alertness, Safety and Productivity. Dr. Howard serves as a Theme Leader in the CRC for Alertness, Safety and Productivity, which funded this work; and has received grants from Prevention Express, Resmed Foundation and TEVA, and equipment support for research from Optalert and Seeing Machines which are not related to the work reported in this paper. Dr. Lockley has had a number of commercial interests in the last 3 years (2015–18). He is a Program Leader for the CRC for Alertness, Safety and Productivity, Australia, which funded this work. No other interests are directly related to the research or topic reported in this paper but, in the interests of full disclosure, are outlined below. Dr. Lockley has received consulting fees from the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Hawks, Delos Living LLC, Noble Insights, OpTerra Energy Services Inc., Pegasus Capital Advisors LP, Serrado Capital, Slingshot Insights and Team C Racing. He has current consulting contracts with Akili Interactive, Apex 2100 Ltd, BHP Billiton, Consumer Sleep Solutions, Headwaters Inc., Hintsa Performance AG, Light Cognitive, Lighting Science Group Corporation, Mental Workout, McCullough Hill Leary PS, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, PlanLED, Six Senses, Stantec and Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering. Dr. Lockley has received unrestricted equipment gifts from Biological Illuminations LLC, Bionetics Corporation and F.LUX Software LLC; has equity in iSLEEP, Pty; royalties from Oxford University Press; honoraria plus travel, accommodation and/or meals for invited seminars, conference presentations or teaching from BHP Billiton, Estee Lauder, Informa Exhibitions (USGBC), and Teague; travel, accommodation and/or meals only (no honoraria) for invited seminars, conference presentations or teaching from IES, Lightfair, USGBC, DIN and SLTBR. SWL has completed investigator-initiated research grants from Biological Illumination LLC and has an ongoing investigator initiated grant from F. Lux Software LLC; and a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the non-profit Midwest Lighting Institute. Dr. Lockley holds a process patent for ‘Systems and methods for determining and/or controlling sleep quality’, which is assigned to the Brigham and Women’s Hospital per Hospital policy. Dr. Lockley has also served as a paid expert in legal proceedings related to light and health. Dr. Rajaratnam is also a Program Leader for the CRC for Alertness, Safety and Productivity, Australia, which funded this work. Dr. Rajaratnam reports grants from Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Philips Respironics, Cephalon, Rio Tinto and Shell, and has received equipment support and consultancy fees through his institution from Optalert, Tyco Healthcare, Compumedics, Mental Health Professionals Network, and Teva Pharmaceuticals, which are not related to this paper. Dr. Sletten serves as a Project Leader in the CRC for Alertness, Safety and Productivity.