Vice-President (Basic)

Dr. Tom de Boer

Laboratory for Neurophysiology
Department of Molecular Cell Biology

Leiden University Medical Center
LUMC S-05-P
PO Box 9600
2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands

Tom de Boer, PhD, is an Associate professor in the Laboratory for Neurophysiology of the Department of Cell and Chemical Biology of the Leiden University Medical Center.

He obtained a master’s degree in Chronobiology in 1992 and a doctorate in Mathematics and Natural Sciences in 1996 at the University of Groningen. He worked in sleep and chronobiology laboratories in Zurich (Switzerland), Philadelphia, PA (USA), and Leiden (The Netherlands) and published over 100 peer reviewed papers, reviews, and book chapters on sleep and sleep research.

Dr. de Boer is a neuroscientist investigating the interaction between sleep and circadian or circannual rhythms. He is specialized in sleep-wake electroencephalogram-electromyogram recordings in freely moving rodents. This technique is combined with brain/body temperature recordings, and/or electrophysiological recordings.

Since 2013 he is an Associate Professor at the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden (the Netherlands). Dr. de Boer is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sleep Research.

Assistant Secretary

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Plazzi

Ospedale Bellaria
via Altura, 3
40139 Bologna, Italy

Dr. Giuseppe Plazzi, MD, PhD is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, coordinator of the Narcolepsy and Hypersonnia Clinic of the CNS of the Department of Medical and Neuromotor Sciences at the IRCCS of the Neurological Sciences of Bologna; Head of the Laboratories for the Study and Treatment of Sleep Disorders, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna. President of the Italian Sleep Society (AIMS); Vice-President of the EU-Narcolepsy Network (EU-NN). Author of more than 350 publications in peer-review journals.

Focus: Pathophysiology and Treatment of Narcolepsy, in adult and children; neurodegenerative diseases and early markers; genetics of sleep disorders; disorders of motor control in sleep.

Treasurer

Prof. Dr. sc Hans-Peter Landolt

University of Zurich,
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Hans-Peter Landolt holds a PhD in natural sciences (1996; ETH Zurich, Switzerland) and completed fellowships in human psychopharmacology research at the University of Zurich (UZH; 1996-1997) and the University of California in San Diego (UCSD; 1998-2000). He is currently Research Director in Human Sleep Psychopharmacology and Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at UZH. Hans-Peter’s research combines and integrates methods of specific pharmacology, neurophysiology, human genetics, molecular brain imaging and neuro­cognitive testing, to investigate the roles for neuro­modulators, receptors and transporters in regulating sleep-associated brain functions in health and disease.

Since 2016, Hans-Peter Landolt serves as Treasurer on the Board of the European Sleep Research Society and is Board Member of the Swiss Society of Sleep Research, Sleep Medicine and Chronobiology. He recently co-edited the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology on Sleep-Wake Neurobiology and Pharmacology (2019) and supports the journal SLEEP as Associate Editor (since 2015). From 2012-2018, he was Co-Director of the Clinical Research Priority Program Sleep & Health at UZH. He is the initiator and a co-founder of the University Center of Competence, Sleep & Health Zurich (SHZ; https://www.sleep.uzh.ch/en.html), of which he currently chairs the Steering Committee. He is also a co-organizer of the international symposia Sleep & Health Zurich 2015, 2018, 2019, and the annual SHZ symposia at UZH.

Member Co-Opted from ANSS

Dr. Oana Deleanu

Lecturer at “Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy”,
Senior doctor at "Prof. Dr. Marius Nasta National Institute of Pulmonology”

Dr. Oana-Claudia Deleanu is PhD in Pulmonology, with the thesis „Peculiarities of Evolution under CPAP Therapy in Patients with OSAS and Arterial Hypertension, Including Resistant”. Following her formation as doctor at the National Institute of Pulmonology (specialist since 2007, senior since 2011), she obtained the position of universitary assistant at “Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy” in 2008 and the position of lecturer in 2015.

Since 2007, she has been working at the National Institute of Pneumology’s Sleep Laboratory as volunteer. In 2014 she has obtained the ERS certified diploma as sleep expert, as well as other diplomas such as “Competency in Somnology, level I and level I+II” (2013) and “Noninvasive Ventilation (2015)” authorized by Romanian Ministry of Health (based on European trainings).

Since 2008, she has been actively participating to multiple national and international conferences and she has been the author/co-author of over 200 presentations and 95 national and international specialized publications, including book chapters, most of them related to the sleep pathology.

The main interest of Dr. Oana-Claudia Deleanu is related to the effect of CPAP on cardiologic features in patients with (resistant) hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea, but also o the clinical aspects related to smoking effects on sleep. In regards to the above-mentioned, she has been a constant member of different research teams involved in national or international projects.
Between 2013 and 2017, Dr. Oana-Claudia Deleanu has been the president of the Romanian Sleep Society, taking as well part in the organization of the Sleep and NIV Conferences (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017).
In 2017, she has been elected as member of the Executive Committee of Assembly of the National Sleep Society of ESRS.

Editor of the Journal of Sleep Research

Prof. Dr. Dieter Riemann

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
University Freiburg

E-Mail: dieter.riemann@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Homepage:  www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/psych/live/personen/riemann.html

Dieter Riemann has a Ph. D. in Psychology and is a full Professor of Clinical Psychophysio-logy at the Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Freiburg University Medical Center/ Germany since 1993. In 2000 he was appointed Section Head for Clinical Psychology and Psychophysiology at the Department. He is also Head of the Sleep Laboratory of the Department (with five bedrooms equipped with up to date sleep monitoring technology) and was a member of the board of the German Sleep Society, head of the work group Insomnia and has been involved in editing the first and second edition of guidelines for Non-restorative sleep in Germany. From 2006 - 2008 he held an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical School/NY. In 2007 he was appointed a member of the APA´s work group sleep disorders for the completion of DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association). From 2008-2016 he was the treasurer of the European Sleep Research Societiy. In 2009 he founded the European Insomnia Network (EIN).

He has been active in psychiatric sleep research for more than two decades and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and given numerous presentations at national and international meetings. He pioneered the introduction of cognitive behavioral treatment for insomnia (CBT-I) in Germany and has served as a primary investigator in many studies on epidemiological, diagnostic and neurobiological aspects of insomnia. Presently his work focuses, besides other interests, mainly on different aspects of insomnia including diagnostics, epidemiology, therapeutics and neurobiology. His latest activities include a federally funded study on the effects of nicotine and nicotine withdrawal on sleep, a study on sleep perception and several EU funded projects.