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Derk-Jan Dijk

Professor of Sleep and Physiology at University of Surrey and Director of Surrey Sleep Research Centre.

Derk-Jan Dijk PhD, FRSB, FMedSci, is Professor of Sleep and Physiology, Distinguished Professor at the University of Surrey, Director of the Surrey Sleep Research Centre. He has been a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award holder, a Senior Research Associate in the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Zurich, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Neuroscientist in the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Dr Dijk has more than 35 years of experience in clinical sleep research. His current research interests include the circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep; the contribution of sleep to brain function in healthy ageing and dementia; the role of circadian rhythmicity in sleep regulation; identification of novel-biomarkers for sleep debt status and circadian rhythmicity, susceptibility to the negative effects of sleep loss; understanding age and sex related differences in sleep physiology and sleep disorders. His research has been or is is funded by the Dementia Research Institute, the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Philips Lighting and several major pharmaceutical companies.

Visit website: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/derk-jan-dijk

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See also: Academia University of Surrey - Public research university for UK and international students

Details last updated 08-May-2020

Derk-Jan Dijk News

10 charts that show why sleep is so important

10 charts that show why sleep is so important

BBC - 28-Oct-2017

Both short and long sleepers are more likely to live shorter lives. Not enough sleep associated...