Lukas Krone, MD, DPhil, is a clinical somnologist and sleep neuroscientist. He currently holds a Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship and a Staines Medical Research Fellowship, conducting research across the Universities of Oxford (UK), Bern (CH), and Wisconsin-Madison (USA).
Lukas obtained his medical degree from the University of Freiburg (DE), followed by an MSc and DPhil in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. Pursuing his interest in sleep medicine, he completed clinical residency training in psychiatry and neurology in Switzerland, earning the Swiss Board Examination in Psychiatry and the European Sleep Medicine Certification. He subsequently secured research fellowships to continue his work on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the homeostatic regulation of sleep in mice. In particular, he explores how the cerebral cortex regulates sleep, aiming to inform novel pharmacological and neuromodulatory strategies for sleep medicine.
He has received early-career awards from the German Sleep Society (DGSM), the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), and the World Sleep Society (WSS). Between 2017 and 2019, he served as president of the Oxford Neuroscience Society. Lukas actively engages in mentoring, teaching, public outreach, mental health campaigns, and open science initiatives centered on sleep neuroscience and medicine.