Speakers

Derk-Jan Dijk, PhD is Distinguished Professor of Sleep and Physiology and Director of the Surrey Sleep Research Centre at the University of Surrey. He is Group Leader for Improving Sleep and Circadian Disruption in the UK Dementia Research Institute. 

He has more than 40 years of experience in clinical sleep research. His current research interests include: the interaction of sleep homeostasis and circadian rhythmicity in the regulation of sleep and cognition; the timing of sleep in modern societies,  novel-biomarkers for sleep loss and circadian disruption and new technologies for monitoring sleep and circadian rhythms.  

Dr Dijk has published more than 350 research and review papers in the area of sleep and circadian rhythms and  is invited frequently to speak at international sleep meetings. He has served as an Associate and Deputy Editor to SLEEP and Editor of the Journal of Sleep Research.  He was a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award holder and a recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Sleep Research Society (USA).