Pierre-Hervé Luppi
France
Pierre-Hervé Luppi
Pierre-Hervé Luppi is a Research Director at the CNRS. Since 2011, he has been the head of the team « SLEEP» of the centre of Neuroscience of Lyon: UMR 5292 CNRS/U1028 INSERM at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), France.
Dr. Luppi obtained his master at UCBL where he worked with Michel Jouvet at the INSERM U52 on the neuroanatomy of the paradoxical sleep generators. He received his PhD in 1989 and entered the CNRS the same year and then remained 12 years in the same laboratory. He was the head of a sleep research CNRS laboratory (UMR 5167) between 2002 and 2010 hosted by the medical school “Faculté Laennec” and member of the «Institut Fédératif des Neurosciences de Lyon ». He received in 1996 the European Sleep Research Society-SynthéLabo fellowship. Dr. Luppi has been a deputy editor of “Journal of Sleep Research” and has been Secretary (2012-2014, 2018-2020) and Vice-President of the European Sleep Research Society (2014-2018).
Dr. Luppi is a fellow of the “Société de Neuroscience”, Society For Neuroscience, IBRO, “Société Française de Recherche sur le Sommeil (SFRS)”, European Sleep Research Society and the Sleep Research Society.
He has published 23 book chapters and 142 research papers (Factor H: 51), plus numerous abstracts.
He is internationally recognized for his current work on the mechanisms responsible for the genesis of the sleep-waking cycle, the cognitive role of sleep and the studies of sleep pathologies like narcolepsy and REM sleep behaviour disorder. In particular, he described the brainstem network responsible for generating muscle atonia during paradoxal sleep and discover the role of MCH in controlling the state. He also more recently described at cellular level the state of the cortex during paradoxical sleep showing that only a few limbic cortical structures are activated by the claustrum and the supramammillary nucleus.
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy
United Kingdom
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy
Vladyslav Vyazovskiy graduated from Kharkov National University, Ukraine in 1997, and in 2004 he received his PhD degree at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Between 2005-2011 he was a postdoctoral researcher and then an Associate Scientist at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. In 2012-2013 he was a Lecturer in Sleep and Chronobiology at the Department of Biochemistry and Physiology (Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences) of the University of Surrey, UK.
He joined the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics (DPAG) of the University of Oxford in 2013 first as a Senior Research Fellow, then became Associate Professor of Neuroscience in 2015, and since 2021 he is a Professor of Sleep Physiology at DPAG. His group is a part of Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, and his research is on sleep, focusing primarily on its role in neurodegenerative disorders, mental health, ageing and metabolism.
Dirk Pevernagie
Belgium
Dirk Pevernagie
Dirk Pevernagie is a pulmonologist and ESRS certified somnologist who is currently working at the Ghent University and Ghent University Hospital.
He obtained his PhD in Biomedical Sciences in 1994 with a thesis on ‘Body position and OSA’ based on research performed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, USA. He has served the Belgian Association for Sleep research and Sleep medicine (BASS) as president from 2000-2008. He has been a (founding) board member of the Dutch Society for Sleep Medicine (SVNL) from 2016 – 2019. Being a member of the ESRS since 1992, he was coopted to the ESRS board from 2006 – 2010 in the capacity of delegate from the Assembly of National Sleep Societies. Recently, he has been serving the ESRS as the chair of the Sleep Medicine Committee and member of the Educational Committee and Examination Subcommittee. He is past director of the Sleep Medicine Centre at Kempenhaeghe, Heeze, The Netherlands.
His main interest is to contribute to the development of sleep medicine as an interdisciplinary and integrative professional domain, accessible to health workers of various disciplines.
