Dr. Stuart Peirson

Stuart Peirson BSc, PhD is a Professor of Circadian Neuroscience and Group Leader in the fundamental neuroscience theme of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institution (SCNi). He completed his PhD in Neuroscience at the Institute of Ophthalmology UCL and then moved to Imperial College to work as a postdoc. During this time he also acted as technical supervisor for the quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) facility at Charing Cross Hospital. Stuart moved to the University of Oxford in 2006 and continued his work to focus upon characterizing the signalling pathways mediating the effects of light on physiology and behaviour, with the aim of identifying novel targets for the regulation of circadian rhythms and sleep.