Dr. Bogdan Voinescu

Bogdan Voinescu, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist at the Department of Liaison Psychiatry, Bristol Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, England, UK, and an honorary research associate at the Centre for Academic Mental Health, University of Bristol (UK). Previously, he was a clinical research fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and  Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK. Before moving abroad, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow, then lecturer in Psychiatry at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Since 2008, he has conducted doctoral and post-doctoral research activities related to the study of sleep and circadian rhythms, being particularly interested in the insomnia disorder and the circadian preference. He was a fellow of the Marie Curie training programme “Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research” (2010) and won several research grants, including one from the European Sleep Research Society (2010). He is the recipient of several prizes, travel grants and fellowships for young researchers, e.g. from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2015), FENS-IBRO (2013), International Society of Behavioral Medicine (2012) or World Psychiatric Association (2011). In 2012, he organised and chaired a School of Advanced Studies on sleep and circadian rhythms in Romania.

He joined the European Sleep Research Society in 2010. He chaired the Web Committee (2017-2020) and was a Secretary of the Early Career Researcher Network (2014-2016).