Prof. Andrew Coogan

Professor Coogan is a behavioural neuroscientist who specialises in the field of circadian rhythms, chronobiology and sleep. He is the director of the Chronobiology and Sleep Research Laboratory at Maynooth University. His particular research interest is in how circadian clocks function in the environment in which we live. He has a Bachelors degree from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from University College Dublin. His PhD work examined the links between the immune system and the processes thought to underpin memory formation. After his PhD work, he spent a further 10 years as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the UK, before joining the Department of Psychology at Maynooth University in 2008, where he was Head of the Department from February 2015 to February 2021. Professor Coogan has published >120 peer-reviewed papers in neuroscience and biological psychology to date in international journals (with >6,000 citations and a H index of 45)