Editor-in-Chief
Associate Professor Daniel Kay - Brigham Young University, USA
Dr. Kay is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University. As a sleep psychologist, Dr. Kay specializes in studying the psychological antecedence, correlates, and consequences of sleep. His current research interests include using somnoimaging (combining neuroimaging techniques with sleep research methods) to understand how regional dynamics during sleep relate to daytime functioning, understanding the mechanisms that link sleep disturbance to suicidality, investigating sleep valuation (the worth placed on sleep and its impact of sleep-related behavior and sleep health), and documenting the history of sleep psychology.
Executive Editors
Actively being recruited.
Dr Christopher Davis - Washington State University, USA
Dr. Chris Davis is an Associate Professor at the Sleep and Performance Research Center and the Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology of Washington State University-Spokane. His current research explores the basic science of sleep regulation and the effects of sleep loss on synaptic plasticity and cognitive functioning. He employs a variety of techniques ranging from electrophysiology, intact animal behavior, mutant models, and opto/chemo genetics to investigate these interests at a circuit level.
Professor Karen Spruyt - National Institute of Medicine and Health (INSERM), Université Paris Cité, France
Professor Spruyt's research focuses on pediatric sleep and neurodevelopment of the child. Her research interests involve sleep in clinical populations (e.g., syndromes such as Rett, Angelman, Down or children with sleep disordered breathing), sleep in non-clinical populations and sleep methodology (e.g. multisignal processing of PSG, questionnaires, pictograms, video-analysis).
Professor Nicole Tang - University of Warwick, UK
Nicole Tang is Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Warwick, UK, where she directs the Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab. Her research focuses on sleep, insomnia, chronic pain, physical activity rhythm, suicide risk, mental health, and their interaction.
Dr Kara Duraccio - Brigham Young University, USA
Dr Laura Palagini - University of Ferrara, Italy
Professor Sandra E. Sephton - Brigham Young University, USA
Editorial Board
Actively being recruited.
Dr Julia T. Boyle - VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Dr. Boyle is a Research Psychologist in the Office of Research and Development (ORD) at VA Boston Healthcare System and an affiliate of the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) and Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on insomnia across the lifespan with particular emphasis on factors that influence sleep in older adult populations (e.g., physical function, ageism, hospitalization, transitions of care).
Dr Rachel Chan - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Dr. Chan's main research focus encompasses a range of sleep-related concerns, including sleep deprivation, insomnia, and circadian disruption; the efficacy of preventive and treatment approaches for sleep disorders, while also exploring the potential benefits of digital interventions in improving sleep and promoting mental well-being across diverse age groups.
Dr Philip Cheng - Henry Ford Health, USA
Dr. Cheng’s research interests primarily focus on sleep, circadian rhythms, and their roles in health and psychological functioning. He is funded by the National Institutes of Health to study phenotypes of shift work disorder, and to translate the science of circadian rhythms into clinically feasible and widely accessible interventions for night shift workers. Additionally, his work examines how digitally delivered therapies may be leveraged to enhance the accessibility of sleep treatments to those who are socially and economically disenfranchised.
Dr Leandro Lourenção Duarte - Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia
Leandro Duarte is an Associate Professor of the Health Sciences Center and Research Leader of the Laboratory of Studies in Neurosciences, Chronobiology and Sleep (LENTES) at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), Brazil. Member of the Chronobiology Council of the Brazilian Sleep Association (ABS). His research program focuses on understanding the quality of sleep, chronotypes and sleep disorders in diverse populations and applying actigraphy to the study of non-pharmacological chronotherapies for treatment of sleep disorders.
Dr Tim Gawley - Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Dr Gawley's research focuses on applications and performance of social scientific research methodologies to the study of sleep; sleep health and society (e.g., Social Determinants of Sleep Health); sleep, self-identity, and social interaction; program evaluation.
Professor Christopher Gordon - Macquarie University, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Christopher Gordon is an Associate Professor of Sleep Health at Macquarie University and Research Leader of Insomnia and Chronobiology at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research. His research programme focusses on understanding the pathophysiology of Insomnia and conducting randomised controlled trials of new digital insomnia therapies and non-pharmacological chronotherapies for treatment of circadian rhythm disruptions.
Professor John Groeger - Nottingham Trent University, UK
Dr Caroline Horton - Bishop Grosseteste University, UK
Dr Horton is Director of DrEAMSLab, Bishop Grosseteste University, and Reader in Psychology: Cognition and Consciousness. She is also Co-Director of the Lincoln Sleep Research Centre, Treasurer and Trustee of the British Sleep Society, and member of the British Psychological Society's Cognitive Psychology Section. Dr Horton's research interests concern sleep dependent memory consolidation and its relationship to dreaming, especially autobiographical and emotional memory processing during sleep. She is the founder of the Sleep Well programme, which is a behavioural intervention for improving sleep quality in a range of populations.
Dr Pasquale Innominato - Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, UK
Dr Innominato's research efforts are focused on improving cancer care through accounting for our biological rhythms around 24 hours. To this end, he has been interested in developing technological solutions and pharmacological approaches to optimize cancer care around the clock.
Professor Gerard Kerkhof - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr Runtang Meng - Hangzhou Normal University, China
Dr Zacharias Papadakis - Barry University, USA
Dr Papadakis' research interests are aimed at understanding how the human body responds and adapts to continuous moderate-intensity exercise and high-intensity interval exercise and training programs, psychological, nutritional, and pharmaceutical stimuli, and how these responses influence cardiometabolic processes in humans under the perspective of the Network Physiology of Exercise and Lifestyle Medicine.
Professor Gabriella Santangelo - University of Campania, Italy
Prof. Gabriella Santangelo is Full Professor for the scientific-disciplinary field of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology (SSD: M-PSI/02) at the Department of Psychology of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”; Coordinator of PhD in "Sciences of the Mind" and Director of the Postgraduate School in Neuropsychology at the Department of Psychology of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Her research activity focuses on neural correlates of non-motor symptoms of several neurological disorders.
Dr Michael Scullin - Baylor University, USA
Dr. Michael Scullin is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University. His research focuses on sleep-cognition interactions and their implications for improving education and later-life functioning.
Dr Enrico Sella - University of Padova, Italy
Dr. Enrico Sella is a Researcher at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy. His current research focuses on individual and age-related differences in metacognitive processes (particularly those related to sleep), sleep quality (both self-reported and objectively measured), and quality of life across the adult lifespan. He also focuses on subjective aging concepts and metacognitive intervention programs for older adults.
Dr Daniel Sullivan - University of Queensland, Australia
Dr Daniel Sullivan is a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and a Senior Psychologist (Sleep Disorders) at The Prince Charles Hospital, Australia. Dr Sullivan leads the ExPEDiTe Sleep project to investigate an Australian-first model of care to extend psychologist scope of practice to deprescribe hypnotics and to prescribe melatonin alongside behavioural sleep medicine interventions. At UQ, he is a member of the Let’s Yarn About Sleep team, working on community co-designed projects to improve sleep health equity for First Nations Australians. Dr Sullivan completed his MSc in Sleep Medicine at the University of Sydney, and PhD in Clinical Psychology at Griffith University, where his research examined psychological mechanisms in sleep-related headaches.
Professor Emerson Wickwire - University of Maryland, USA
Dr Amy Wolfson - Loyola University Maryland
Advisory Council
Actively being recruited.
Dr Bernard Baars - The Neurosciences Institute, USA
Dr Baars is best known for cognitive neuroscience work on the problem of consciousness and the brain, going back to his first book from Cambridge University Press (1988) A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness. In 2020 he received the Hermann von Helmholtz Prize for lifetime achievement in perception, from the IEEE. Dr Baars' latest book is Bernard Baars & Natalie Geld, 2019, On Consciousness: Science and Subjectivity, NY, NY, Nautilus Press.
Professor Donald Bliwise - Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Professor Daniel Buysse - University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dr Elizabeth Cash - University of Louisville, USA
Dr Cash's research interests are firmly concentrated on understanding the mechanisms linking psychological experience with effects on biology. She has extensively examined ambulatory, accelerometry-based rest/activity and sleep/wake cycle disruption among cancer patients and healthy young adults.
Dr Joseph Dzierzewski - National Sleep Foundation, USA
Dr. Dzierzewski’s research programme focuses on the correlates and consequences of sleep, both disordered and healthy sleep, in historically underserved communities.
Professor Peretz Lavie - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Dr Kenneth Lichstein - University of Alabama, USA
Dr Kenneth Lichstein is Professor Emeritus of Psychology, The University of Alabama. He served as Chair of this department and previously served as Director of Clinical Training at the University of Memphis. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and is Certified in Behavioral Sleep Medicine. His research has focused on sleep with an emphasis on psychological processes in late-life insomnia, hypnotic-dependent insomnia, comorbid insomnia, and epidemiology of sleep.
Professor Greg Murray - Swinburne University of Technology
Professor Murray conducts research into sleep and circadian disruption in mental health.
Dr Edward Pace-Schott - Harvard Medical School, USA
As a sleep researcher for over 20 years, Dr Pace-Schott has expertise in measuring sleep physiology using laboratory and ambulatory PSG, diagnostic PSG for sleep disorders, wrist actigraphy, novel ambulatory sleep-recording devices, retrospective assessments and sleep-disorders screening tools as well as sleep, nightmare and dream diaries. He also has extensive experience with psychophysiological and self-report techniques for detecting and quantifying negative emotional states in humans including quantification of emotional content in dream reports.
Professor Hartmut Schulz - Free University of Berlin, Germany
Professor Schulz's research interests are general psychology, neuropsycholgy, human sleep research, sleep medicine and history of sleep.
Professor Kai Spiegelhalder - Freiburg University Medical Centre, Germany