Derk-Jan Dijk

Prof Derk-Jan Dijk

Group Leader

Developing and evaluating new technologies that can measure a person’s sleep and wake patterns at home

Topics

Sleep & Circadian rhythms

Techniques

Robotics & environmental sensing

Biography

Professor of Sleep and Physiology and Director of the Surrey Sleep Research Centre, Prof Derk-Jan Dijk is an expert in sleep and circadian rhythms. Obtaining his PhD from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, he went on to conduct research at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, USA. Joining the University of Surrey in 1999, he founded the Surrey Sleep Research Centre in 2003. Derk-Jan has won numerous awards, including a Distinguished Scientist Award from the Sleep Research Society in 2015, and was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2018. As part of the UK DRI Care Research & Technology Centre at Imperial in collaboration with the University of Surrey, he leads a novel programme of research developing new technologies to enhance sleep for people with dementia.

News

Key publications

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Published

International recommendations for sleep and circadian research in aging and Alzheimer's disease: A Delphi consensus study

Authors
Claire André, Laura Stankeviciute, Johannes C Michaelian, Inga M Antonsdottir, Ruth M Benca, Elizabeth J Coulthard, Angela L D'Rozario, Derk-Jan Dijk, Sandra Gimenez, Maurizio Gorgoni, Yue Leng, Brendan P Lucey, Matthew P Pase, Stephanie R Rainey-Smith, Ivana Rosenzweig, Adam P Spira, Joseph R Winer, Géraldine Rauchs, Sharon L Naismith, Sleep and Circadian Rhythms Professional Interest Area of the International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment (ISTAART)
International recommendations for sleep and circadian research in aging and Alzheimer's disease: A Delphi consensus study
Nature neuroscience
Published

Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic

Authors
Junheng Li, Anastasia Ilina, Robert Peach, Tianyu Wei, Edward Rhodes, Valeria Jaramillo, Ines R Violante, Mauricio Barahona, Derk-Jan Dijk, Nir Grossman
Falling asleep follows a predictable bifurcation dynamic
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Published

Contactless longitudinal monitoring in the home characterizes aging and Alzheimer's disease-related night-time behavior and physiology

Authors
Eyal Soreq, Magdalena A Kolanko, CRT group, Kiran K G Ravindran, Ciro Della Monica, Victoria Revell, Sarah Daniels, Anna Joffe, Helen Lai, Mara Golemme, Martina Del Giovane, Chloe Walsh, David Wingfield, Ramin Nilforooshan, Marie-Ange Stefanos, Benjamin Vittrant, Paul de Villèle, Derk-Jan Dijk, David J Sharp
Contactless longitudinal monitoring in the home characterizes aging and Alzheimer's disease-related night-time behavior and physiology

Dijk Lab

Explore the work of the Dijk Lab, developing  and evaluating new technologies that can measure a person’s sleep and wake patterns at home, which will enable large state-of-the-art studies and investigations into new interventions to enhance healthy sleep and circadian rhythm in people with dementia.

Dijk Lab
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