Bob Davis joined the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering听faculty in January 2023 as a scholar in residence, but he is no stranger to CU Boulder or the department. His CU position is part-time, as Davis听also continues in his role as chief lighting research engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
Davis earned both his BAE degree听and his MS degree in architectural engineering at Penn State University. He later earned his PhD in cognitive psychology at CU Boulder in 2006.
He was a full-time CEAE faculty member from 1998-2007, then re-joined the CEAE department in 2019 as an adjoint听professor in architectural engineering, where he supported educational activities focused on professional audiences, such as the professional graduate certificate in architectural lighting and programs offered through the Rocky Mountain Lighting Academy.听
At PNNL听his responsibilities include serving as technical director of the solid-state lighting program and leading several human-factors research efforts. In addition to his prior role as a faculty member听for CU Boulder's听College of Engineering and Applied Science, he听has also held听a faculty position at RPI鈥檚 Lighting Research Center. His experience includes working in engineering and marketing at a lamp manufacturer and leading the product development and engineering teams at a luminaire manufacturer. He听is also a fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society.