Dr. Aysheh Alshdaifat is a Guest Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, School of Architecture. She previously held Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Research Associate positions at the University of Sheffield between 2021 and 2024. She was endorsed by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) — the UK’s national funding body for research and innovation — as an Exceptional Global Talent. She was awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Sheffield as part of the European-funded LightCAP project (lightcap.eu). In 2023, she held an Academic Visitor position at Eindhoven University of Technology within the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences. She has presented her work at international conferences and events contributing to lighting design standard-making across England, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic. Her research is highly interdisciplinary, integrating architecture, psychology, physiology, and behavioural science. She focuses on how design decisions in the built environment influence cognition, alertness, wellbeing, and sleep-related hormones, and their implications for human safety.​