Isobel is a final-year PhD Candidate at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and University of Sydney. Her supervisors are Dr Camilla Hoyos (Primary), Professor Ronald Grunstein, A/Prof Nathaniel Marshall, and Professor Iain McGregor. Her thesis is entitled 'Electroencephalographic findings in insomnia disorder treatment effects under cannabinoid interventions'. Isobel’s PhD research involved a clinical trial of cannabinol (CBN) for treatment of insomnia disorder and an investigation into indirect modulation of ascending reticular systems by cannabinoid interventions.

Shay-Ruby Wickham is a PhD candidate at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Shay-Ruby has always been interested in the idea of promoting healthy habits to foster optimal sleep, and is combining that interest with one of the most challenging issues for modern parents - kids' screen time! Using new technologies to more accurately measure how children use their screens in the evenings, her research examines how screen use impacts how children sleep that night, to develop more targeted guidelines around screen use and sleep, that hopefully have a much better chance of being implemented by children and their families.

Daniel Windred is a recent PhD Graduate from Monash University, and he works closely with A/Prof. Andrew Phillips, and A/Prof. Sean Cain. His research explores the determinants and outcomes of circadian disruption, and focuses on sleep regularity, light exposure, core body temperature, and peripheral circadian markers. The scope of his work ranges from detailed in-lab circadian assessments, through to analysis of actigraphy and health outcomes in large-scale cohort studies. Daniel aims to develop simple and accessible tools to improve the assessment of circadian disruption, and to enhance health and wellbeing.

Pranavan Somaskandhan is a PhD Candidate at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Queensland, Australia, under the supervision of Associate Professor Philip Terrill. He earned his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2017. Previously, he worked as a Software Engineer at WSO2 Inc. and as a Temporary Lecturer at the University of Peradeniya, gaining valuable experience in both industry and academia. Pranavan's research interests revolve around sleep measurement technologies and the application of Artificial Intelligence in sleep science.

Emma is a Staff Specialist in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney. She is also currently undertaking a Masters of Philosophy with the University of Sydney.

Dr. Maya Schenker completed her PhD at the John Trinder Sleep Laboratory (University of Melbourne, Australia), where her doctoral research focused on the link between sleep and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her research interest is in further our understanding how sleep influences the mechanisms underlying PTSD and anxiety disorder, such as fear conditioning and extinction learning, and how it affects the symptom expression in everyday life. Maya’s goal is to find better ways to prevent and manage PTSD and anxiety disorders by targeting sleep as a modifiable, etiological factor.