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Dr Edward Barrett
403
Central House
14 Upper Woburn Place
London
WC1H 0HY
Appointment
- Lecturer (Teaching)
- Bartlett School Env, Energy & Resources
- Faculty of the Built Environment
Biography
Edward's doctoral and early postdoctoral
research focused on cleanroom-based fabrication and characterisation of
optoelectronic devices made from organic and inorganic semiconductor
materials, first at Imperial College and then at the Optoelectronic
Research Centre at Southampton. Having explored mesopic visual perception in his research, he first joined UCL in 2011 on a project investigating street lighting glare.
This was followed by a role at the Nanoscience Centre at Cambridge,
designing photomasks and fabricating test surfaces with a variety of
pillar, ridge, and fan-like microstructures, along with surfaces with
hydrophobicity patterned on the micron scale.
He returned to UCL to help with the relocation to Here East of the Bartlett Lighting Simulator, and with the upgrade of the luminaires and control system. He now works in Building Physics Monitoring at the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering.
Research Themes


Research Summary
Edward is a physicist with a background in optoelectronics and has worked in fields ranging from fibre optics to lighting to zoology.
Research expertise includes:
- performance analysis of lighting systems
- visual perception, psychophysics
- fabrication and characterisation of LEDs, solar cells, and other optoelectronic structures
Recent published research at UCL has looked at the performance gap between design and operation in the built environment.
Teaching Summary
Edward is a Lecturer (Teaching) in Building Physics Monitoring and teaches on the MEng Engineering & Architectural Design. He also teaches on the MSc Light and Lighting, on which he acted as Programme Lead for most of 2020.
Appointments
2020 – 2021 | Programme Lead | BSEER | UCL, United Kingdom |
2020 | Lecturer (Teaching) | BSEER | UCL, United Kingdom |
2019 – 2020 | Teaching Fellow | BSEER | UCL, United Kingdom |
Academic Background
2007 | Doctor of Philosophy | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | |
2003 | Master of Natural Science | University of Bristol |