Torbjörn Åkerstedt

Torbjörn Åkerstedt is a senior professor of psychology at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet and is affiliated with Stockholm University.
He was previously director of the Stress Research Institute of Stockholm University and the Stockholm Stress Center as well as president of the European Sleep Research Society and secretary-general of the World Federation of Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine Societies. He has published some 380 articles in international scientific journals focused on stress, sleep and working hours.