Torbjörn Åkerstedt - Biography#

Torbjörn Åkerstedt is a Professor of Behavioral Medicine at Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet and the Head of the Institute for Stress Research (Stockholm University).

R. Åkerstedt has published more than 200 scientific papers on sleep regulation, work hours and health, and related areas. He is the past Secretary General of the World Federation of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Societies and past President of the European Sleep Research Society. He is also a co-organizer of the next biannual congress of the Working Time and Shift Work Society (a section of the ICOH) in Stockholm in 2011.