Board of the Swiss Young Sleep Wake Chronobiology Network (SYSWCN)

Jelena Skorucak is a Postdoc in the Group of Prof. Achermann at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich. She is Founder and Vice-Chair of the SYSWCN since 2016. Contact: jelena.skorucak [_at_] pharma.uzh.ch

Manuel Carro Dominguez is a PhD student at the Neural Control of Movement Lab at ETH Zurich. He is investigating indirect markers to monitor arousal during human sleep. Contact: manuel.carrodominguez [_at_] hest.ethz.ch

Maria Dimitriades is a Ph.D. student in Reto Huber’s lab under the supervision of Miriam Gerstenberg. She is interested in the intersection between basic sleep research and psychiatry. She works with electroencephalographic data from typically developing children and adolescent populations, as well as clinical populations who are on the psychosis spectrum.

Alejandro Osorio-Forero did his Ph.D. in the group of Prof. Anita Lüthi at the University of Lausanne working on the noradrenergic control of NREM sleep dynamics. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Sleep and Cognition at the Netherlands Institute of Neuroscience in Amsterdam. He works in translational neuroscience with a focus on the neuromodulatory mechanisms underlying hyperarousal during sleep. He is part of the SYSWCN board since 2022. Contact: a.osorio [_at_] nin.knaw.nl

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Previous Members of the Board

2016 – 2023 David Schreier (co-founder and former chair)

2017 – 2023 Giulia Gaggioni

2016 – 2017 Andrea Spinnler

2016 – 2017 Anneke Hertig Godeschalk