Till Roenneberg, PhD is a Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Medical Psychology and Senior Research Associate from the Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational-, Social- and Environmental Medicine, at the LMU Munich in Germany. He is the founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the Chronsulting (https://www.chronsulting.org/team).
His research interest is in understanding sleep and its changes over the different stages of industrialisation. He is the first chronobiologist who took basic chronobiological questions about the human clock out into the real world and everyday life. To understand entrainment in humans, he developed the MCTQ, a questionnaire that assesses chronotype. He recognised and defined social jetlag, a quantification of the discrepancy between biological and social time. He has gathered the sleep and wake behavior from more than 280,000 people all over the world with the MCTQ. He coordinated several collaborative, international networks, including ClockWork and EuroClock. He holds invited Professorships at the Universities of Pádua in Italy, Porto Alegre Brazil, Northwestern in Chicago and Oxford. He is the current President of the World Federation of Chronobiological Societies and past President of the European Biological Rhythms Society.
During his career he received several prizes and in 2019 he was named “Ambassador for Sleep” by the German Sleep Foundation.
He published two books ("Internal Time” and "The Right to Sleep"), and over 220 scientific publications.
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