The Laboratory of Adaptive Lighting Systems and Visual Perception, known as the Darmstadt Lighting Institute DLI is one of the big contributors for Lighting. The research topics today cover automotive lighting in many subfields like front and rear lighting, interior lighting, autonomous vehicles and VR simulation for all kinds of traffic situations. But it covers much more major lighting issues with research: Smart Lighting, Integrative Lighting Quality, LED Technology and – latest – Photobiology with Plants.
The most important event that is visible from outside is the bi-annual symposium ISAL, the international symposium on automotive lighting. 14 international conferences took place since 1995. ISAL is the worldwide biggest scientific and technical conference. About 1000 participants meet and discuss during the two-day forum and exhibition.
Since 2006 Prof. Khanh is the head of the DLI, with an enormous record of more than 1400 lectures and more than 600 students that now have in their curriculum lighting lectures. His actual research team counts 16 Doctoral Researchers and 6 external Researchers.
The DLI has a quite long history, founded in 1956. Meanwhile 280 Students wrote their Master/Diploma Thesis about lighting topics and 51 Doctors received their academic grade.