The Professor
A short version of how I got here
I'm a Professor of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at UT Dallas, where I founded and direct the Sleep Innovation Laboratories at the Center for BrainHealth. My lab studies how sleep shapes human health and disease — from Alzheimer's and cardiovascular illness to depression, anxiety, and metabolic function.
Before Texas, I spent seventeen years at UC Berkeley, and before that I was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. A hundred-plus peer-reviewed papers, funded by the NIH and NSF. The work has always been the same question, asked from different angles: what does sleep actually do, and what happens when it doesn't happen?
BSc Neuroscience
Nottingham University, UK
PhD Neurophysiology
Medical Research Council, London
Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Professor of Neuroscience & Psychology
UC Berkeley
Lorri & Todd Platt Professor of Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering
Sleep Innovation Laboratories, Center for BrainHealth — UT Dallas — Current
100+
Peer-reviewed publications
25M+
TED talk views
4M+
Books sold, 40+ languages
17 yrs
UC Berkeley faculty
Research Methodology
Sleep Innovation Laboratories
The lab works across the full translational pipeline — MRI, PET, high-density sleep EEG, genomics, proteomics, autonomic physiology, transcranial stimulation, and cognitive testing — moving from basic neuroscience discovery to clinical intervention and real-world application.
