Lectures and seminars Science Today – on time
Science Today is a recurring afterwork that kickstarts the brain and the weekend with the most exciting research of the day and some of Stockholm’s best DJs. Welcome to this ninth edition, on the theme of time, where three scientists will present research that provides new insights.
Time passes and we can all feel it. Ancient civilizations used the sun, moon, planets and stars to determine seasons and measure the passage of time. Today, it’s possible to measure an attosecond – a billionth of a billionth of a second.
Yet the question of what time really is continues to preoccupy humans over the centuries. Can we say that the future or the past really exists? How long is the present? What existed before the beginning of time?
Science Today invites PhD students and postdocs from Karolinska Institutet (KI), Chalmers University of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University (SU) to present their research on stage at the Nobel Prize Museum.
KI researcher:
Leonie Balter – Postdoc (Department for Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet) and Researcher (Department of Psychology, Stockholm University).
Subject: Does timing matter? How sleep shapes mental health within the day
Summary: In my research, I investigate why mental health fluctuates over time, from the swift swings within a single day to the more gradual shifts throughout the year. A major focus is understanding how sleep and the timing of sleep affect how we function and feel during the day. The mission is to better integrate considerations of timing in the management of mental health conditions.
Language
English