Professor Peter Achermann
Professor Peter Achermann – co-director of the Human Sleep Laboratory, member of the Center for Integrative Human Physiology, group leader within the Neuroscience Center Zurich, a senior research associate and head of Human Sleep Laboratory, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich.
Professor Achermann’s research interests concern sleep and, in particular, signal analysis of the EEG, mathematical modeling of sleep processes and circadian rhythms, imaging of sleep (brain mapping and PET studies), sleep regulation during infancy, preschool age and adolescence as well as the effects of electromagnetic fields as emitted by mobile phones on sleep. Also, in the collaboration of clinicians, Professor Achermann examines the processes related to narcolepsy, sleep of Parkinsonian or stroke-affected patients, patients before and after stereotactic surgeries and the ones being in a persistent vegetative state.
Professor Achermann is the author of over 100 publications, a fellow of numerous scientific associations, just to mention: World Federation of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Societies, European Sleep Research Society, International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) and many others.
Professor Achermann will visit the Warsaw University of Technology in June and July 2013 and will be hosted by Professor Stanisław Janeczko.
