Biography
David Kretzer is a Lighting Consultant at EBP Schweiz AG in Zurich.
In January 2021 he completed his doctorate at ETH Zurich ISTP - Institute for Science, Technology and Policy. His research was part of the ISTP's Urban Research Incubator, focused on outdoor lighting in informal settlements.
He previously worked for several years as a lighting product manager in Dornbirn and Basel and as a lighting designer in Shanghai.
During his time in Basel, he and Kornelius Reutter invented the Lightpad family of floor lamps (patent: EU 16207033.8-1757), which won the German Design Award 2017, the Red Dot Award 2017 and the iF Design Award 2017.