Yuval Nir

Prof. Nir is an investigator at Tel Aviv University and the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel. Prof. Nir pursued direct M.Sc. in Computer Science through an interdisciplinary program for outstanding students, proceeded to a Ph.D. in neurobiology (with Rafael Malach), and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness with Prof. Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2012, Prof. Nir set up his own lab at Tel Aviv University: http://yuvalnirlab.com

Research in the lab focuses on sleep and and their relation to cognition, combining diverse experimental approaches in human and basic animal resaerch. Research domains includ basic research on brain activity during sleep, the neuronal basis of disconnection from the external environment during sleep and anesthesia, arousal-promoting neuromodulation and brain noradrenaline, how sleep promotes learning and memory, and how sleep can be used to improve medical diagnosis in neuro-psychiatric disorders. In the last few years, Prof. Nir’s research has expanded into the inersection of tech and sleep research and has filed several patents on novel methodologies in sleep-related monitoring and modulation.

To date, Prof. Nir has published 57 articles, cited over 10,000 times, and published in prestigious journals including Nature, Science, Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications, Neuron. He has won several awards and prizes for his research including ERC grant on sleep and memory, and the Sieratzki and Adelis prizes for neuroscience.