Derk-Jan Dijk, PhD

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.
Dr Dijk 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; identification of novel-biomarkers for susceptibility to the negative effects of sleep loss; sleep and circadian disruption in dementia, the validation and implementation of new technologies for monitoring sleep and circadian rhythms in dementia and the implementation of chronotherapies.
Dr Dijk has published more than 350 research and review papers in the area of sleep and circadian rhythms. Dr Dijk 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, a recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Sleep Research Society (USA) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.