Dr. Abidemi Otaiku is a medical doctor and neuroscientist at Imperial College London, affiliated with the Department of Brain Sciences and the UK Dementia Research Institute Care Research & Technology. His research focuses on the impact of sleep disturbances—particularly nightmares—on biological ageing and health, using large-scale population data and molecular markers like telomere length and epigenetic clocks to uncover links between poor sleep and increased risk of early death.