Arne Lowden Associate Professor
Contact
Name and title: Arne LowdenAssociate Professor
Mail: arne.lowden@su.se
Phone: +46855378915
Workplace: Department of Psychology Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room 326Albanovägen 12
Postal address Psykologiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
Arne Lowden is a sleep and stress researcher with a research profile of “circadian rhythms, light behavior, sleep”. Arne is currently one of the country’s certified sleep specialists. He has primarily studied adjustment disorders for shift workers and flying personnel. He has also conducted studies of self-selected working hours, conducted experimental studies of nutrition and sleep and studied how alertness, learning and performance can be improved in school. Recently, he has devoted his studies to studies such as the effects of light on sleep, alertness and recovery in so-called light therapy rooms. He has also studied light in schools, lighting in windowless rooms and in nursing homes. The latest project The Snowball Effect describes what happens when the ground is covered in snow, how mood, activity and alertness are affected, how the hormone melatonin reacts and what importance the extra light contribution we get from snow has on the cinema. The popular scientific book Survive the Winter contains tips on how winter darkness can be managed to improve sleep, mood and alertness. Arne frequently lectures on lighting and the health effects of light exposure for private and public organizations. Arne has participated in several conferences, nationally and internationally, and has developed educational materials for many courses under the auspices of Prevent (Shift Workers' Driving License) and the Swedish Dairy Federation (Food and Sleep School). Arne has been responsible for a summer school in chronobiology, arranged by Stockholm University and São Paulo in Stockholm and in São Paulo, Brazil.
Education: PhD in Psychology 1999. Accredited sleep specialist 2010. Associated Professor 2011.
Arne has been course director for a number of courses, including the distance learning course "Lifestyle and Health" at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the training module "Work Psychology and Health" in psychology at Karolinska Institutet.
Publications 2021-2025
Lowden A, Silva-Costa A, Rotenberg L, Aquino EML, Fonseca MJM, Griep RH. Does Work after Retirement Matter? Sleep Features among Workers in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 13;18(8):4117. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18084117. PMID: 33924687; PMCID: PMC8069779.
Lowden A, Kecklund G. Considerations on how to light the night shift. Lighting Research and Technology. 2021:5:437-452.
Aries MBC, Fischl G, Lowden A & Beute F. The relationship of light exposure to sleep outcomes among office workers. Part 1: Working in the office versus at home before and during the COVID-pandemic. Lighting Research & Technology. Lighting Research and Technology, ISSN 1477-1535, E-ISSN 1477-0938, 2024, Vol. 56, nr 2, s. 113-125
Beute F, Lowden A & Aries MBC. The relationship of light exposure to sleep outcomes among office workers. Part 2: Comparison of days with and without social constraints. Lighting Research and Technology, ISSN 1477-1535, E-ISSN 1477-0938, 2024, Vol. 56, nr 2, s. 126-135
Favero F. Lowden A. Bresin R, Ejhed J. Study of the Effects of Daylighting and Artificial Lighting at 59° Latitude on Mental States, Behaviour and Perception. Sustainability 2023, 15, 1144. https:// doi.org/10.3390/su15021144
Lowden A. Överlev vintern. Polaris, Stockholm. 2024, pp124. ISBN 978-91-8066-261-1
Favero F, Bresin R, Mancini M, Lowden A & Avola D. (2025). Light and motion: effects of light conditions and mEDI on activity and motion area under a sky-lighting machine. LEUKOS 2025, 21(4), 360-382.
Lowden A & Dincel S. The Snowball Effect: Snow cover increases light exposure, suppresses melatonin, and improves alertness in an urban population at northern latitudes. Chronobiology International 2025, 42(12), 1699-1710.
Favero F, Bresin R, Lowden A & Muro R. Light and Perception: Study of the Effects of Daylight and Artificial Light on Affect, Mood, and Sleepiness Under a Sky-Lighting Machine. LEUKOS 2026, 1-24.