About the Authors

Thomas Kantermann

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Kantermann, Sebastian Forstner

Affiliation Centre for Behaviour and Neurosciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Sebastian Forstner

Contributed equally to this work with: Thomas Kantermann, Sebastian Forstner

Affiliation County Hospital Schrobenhausen, Schrobenhausen, Germany

Martin Halle

Affiliation Department for Prevention and Sports Medicine, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany

Luc Schlangen

Affiliation Philips Lighting, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Till Roenneberg

Affiliation Institute for Medical Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss

Arno.Schmidt-Trucksaess@unibas.ch

Affiliation Institute of Exercise and Health Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Co-author Luc Schlangen is employed by Philips Lighting, Eindhoven. Two experimental lights (HF3309 PL-L 36 W Philips EnergyLights, with a correlated color temperature of 5000 K) were used in this study. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors‘ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK SF LS TR AST. Performed the experiments: SF AST. Analyzed the data: TK SF TR AST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH AST. Wrote the paper: TK SF LS MH TR AST.