– Founder & Director
Professor Matthew Walker
The Founder and Director of the Foundation is Dr. Matthew Walker, a professor of neuroscience at UC Berkeley, and former professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School…
- – 20+ years studying the science of sleep, and has published 100+ scientific research studies to date
- – Dr. Walker is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Why We Sleep
- – Walker is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences
- – In 2020, he was awarded the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Achievement
- – Dr. Walker has received numerous awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. His main-stage TED Talk has received over +20M views, and he has presented one of the most viewed, MasterClass series.