Sleep Europe 2026 | Looking forward to Sleep Europe 2026 with the Vice President of ESRS

I’m Vice President of the ESRS. This is the end of my second term in this role and I was always very proud and very excited to be involved in the ESRS and the society in this capacity. In fact, my PhD advisors Irene Tobler and Alexander Borbely, they were involved in the society early on and they were both presidents of the ESRS. It’s really important that this tradition of having basic sleep research as a big part of this meeting and this conference, that this tradition is maintained. And this was really my duty and my privilege to represent and defend, if you wish, the representation of basic sleep research across Europe. And there are many labs across Europe, across many European countries who are asking and addressing some very fundamental questions about sleep, about mechanisms of sleep, about functions of sleep, about the fundamental biology of sleep across model organisms. And this makes ESRS, European Sleep Research Society, somewhat unique. Some other sleep societies are more leaning towards clinical questions, clinical aspects represented at the meetings. And ESRS has also a very strong basic sleep research representation in our society. We work really well together with our clinical colleagues. We collaborate with them closely and many of them use insights we obtained, we basic scientists obtained in our work for understanding sleep disorders or changes in sleep in association with other conditions and other diseases and not only neurological conditions. And this is probably the only way how we can achieve a better understanding of sleep and indeed provide and develop new therapeutics, new therapeutic strategies and to help patients.

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