Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy
About
Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy is Professor of Sleep Physiology in Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) and Tutorial Fellow in Medicine at Hertford College.
His research interests include neurobiology of sleep, torpor and hibernation, psychedelics and relevance of sleep for mental health.
Professor Vyazovskiy graduated from Kharkiv National University, Ukraine and then completed a PhD at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Following postdoctoral and lectureship positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and Surrey University in the UK, he first joined DPAG as a Senior Research Fellow, before becoming Associate Professor of Neuroscience and then Professor of Sleep Physiology. He is a member of Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) and Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery.
Professor Vyazovskiy is a Vice-President of the European Sleep Research Society and a Director of Graduate Studies at DPAG.
Expertise
- Sleep
- Hibernation
- Torpor
- Circadian rhythms
- Neuroscience
- Psychedelics
- Brain
- Mental health
Selected publications
- Intracellular chloride regulation mediates local sleep pressure in the cortex (2022)
- Psilocin acutely alters sleep-wake architecture and cortical brain activity in laboratory mice (2022)
- Re-examining extreme sleep duration in bats: implications for sleep phylogeny, ecology, and function (2022)
- “Paradoxical wakefulness” induced by psychedelic 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine in mice (2022)
- A role for the cortex in sleep–wake regulation (2021)
- The relationship between fasting-induced torpor, sleep, and wakefulness in laboratory mice (2021)
- Global sleep homeostasis reflects temporally and spatially integrated local cortical neuronal activity (2020)
- Sleep and ageing: from human studies to rodent models (2020)
Media experience
Professor Vladyslav Vyazovskiy has media experience including interviews and providing commentaries with providers such as BBC Radio, The New York Times, NPR (National Public Radio) and The Wall Street Journal as well as generating popular content for The Conversation. Professor Vyazovskiy also has experience with podcasts and delivered a TEDx talk titled Can Humans Hibernate.
Recent media work
- Penguins Have Perfected the Power Nap (The Wall Street Journal, 2023)
- Penguins Take Thousands of Naps Every Day (The New York Times, 2023)
- Mooney Goes Wild: Hibernation (RTÉ, 2022)
- Sleep Science Podcast. Episode 4: Vlad Vyazovskiy - Local sleep, circadian rhythms and torpor (2020)
- Articles: The Conversation
- Short interview on human hibernation (BBC Radio 4)
- Sleeping with One Eye Open: CortexCast - A Neuroscience Podcast
Languages
English