Antoine Adamantidis PhD

Prof. Antoine Adamantidis was born in Tourcoing (France) and grew up in Belgium. The University of Liege (Belgium) awarded him his PhD in 2005 for his doctoral thesis on the characteristics of the physiological function of melanin-concentrated hormone receptors in mice. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University of Medicine (USA) and from 2008 to 2010 he was a research associate for the Department of Psychiatry and Biological Sciences at Stanford University of Medicine (USA). In 2010 he moved to the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal (Canada), where he founded a laboratory on the optogenetic dissection of sleep-wake stages. Since 2014 he has been a Professor of Neurophysiology Systems at the University of Bern and Director of the Center for Experimental Neurology at the Neurology Clinic of the University Hospital of Bern.