Prof. Stephen Westland (GB)
Professor of Colour Science and Technology in the School of Design at the University of Leeds
Biography
Stephen Westland is Professor of Colour Science and Technology in the School of Design at the University of Leeds. He has held several senior management roles at the university, including Head of the School of Design and Faculty Dean. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in the areas of colour measurement, colour imaging, colour design, and machine learning. He is the principal author of the book Colour Science using MATLAB (2004; 2012) and co-author of Universal Principles of Color (2023). He served as President of the Society of Dyers and Colourists in 2019 and was awarded the Davies Medal (2008) from the Royal Photographic Society for his research in colour imaging. He was the founding academic editor of the Journal of the International Colour Association, is a member of the editorial board of Color Research and Application, and is involved in the AIC/ISSC Colour Literacy Project.
