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Prof. Antoine Adamantidis was born in Tourcoing (France) and grew up in Belgium. The University of Liege (Belgium) awarded him a PhD in 2005 for his doctoral thesis on the characteristics of the physiological function of melanin-concentrating hormone receptors in mice. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University of Medicine (USA) and from 2008 to 2010 he worked as a research assistant for the Department of Psychiatry and Biological Sciences at Stanford University of Medicine (USA). In 2010 he moved to the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal (Canada), where he founded a laboratory on optogenetic dissection of sleep-wake stages. Since 2014 he has been Professor of Neurophysiology Systems at the University of Bern and Director of the Center for Experimental Neurology at the Neurology Clinic University Hospital Bern.
Ulf Kallweit is Ass. Professor of Neurology at the University Witten/Herdecke, Germany. He is head of the Center for Narcolepsy/ Hypersomnias and the division of clinical sleep and neuroimmunology at the institute of immunology. Since 2020, he is also Consulting Research Professor at the Stanford Sleep Epidemiology Research Center, USA. He received his training in Neurology and Sleep Medicine in Bonn (DE), Zurich (CH), Minneapolis (USA) and Bern (CH). Ulf Kallweit is Chair of the Educational Committee of the European Narcolepsy Network and Chair of the Sleep Disorders Panel of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN).
He was awarded with the Research Prize of the Italian Narcolepsy Association (AIN) in 2018, the Nakano Citation (CDC, USA) in 2019, the Research Prize in Neurosciences, Pfizer Foundation 2020 and the 1st Prize Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases by Franco-Regli-Foundation in 2021.
His main area of scientific interest and expertise focuses on the clinical aspects and the management of narcolepsy and hypersomnolence disorders.
Prof. Kallweit is a member of several national and international scientific societies and has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Nature. In 2021, he has been appointed Field Editor at the Journal Sleep Medicine and is Associated Editor of the Journal Sleep Epidemiology.
Dr. Markus Schmidt works as Senior Physician, Deputy Head of the Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, Schlaf-Wach-Epilepsie Zentrum, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Switzerland. He is the former Medical Director at the Ohio Sleep Medicine Institute in Columbus, Ohio (USA).
Dr Schmidt completed his PhD in sleep neurophysiology in Lyon, France under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michel Jouvet – one of the “fathers” of sleep research. Dr Schmidt completed his residency in neurology at the Cleveland Clinic and his clinical training under the supervision of his father – Dr. Helmut Schmidt – a pioneer in the field of sleep medicine. Dr. Schmidt does research in Systems Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Neuroscience. His current work has focussed on the Energy Allocation Hypothesis of sleep, the role of the lateral hypothalamus in sleep and waking behaviors, and clinical sleep medicine. He proposed a new theory of sleep function (title: «the energy allocation hypothesis of sleep») and is active in a research program in Bern where he is a group leader. As the current Chairman of the World Sleep Society (previously WASM) Examination Committee, he is responsible for the development of an international exam in sleep medicine and its guidance on implementation. He is a member of ESRS Clinical Guidelines Working Group, since 2021 Scientific and Teaching Committee, EU NN, Member of Coordinating Panel Neuroscience/Translational Neurology, EAN.
He is an author and co-author of many scientific papers published in international and national peer-reviewed journals https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3299-1318.