People

Members

Co Lead

Dr Lucas França

A physicist by choice, a neuroscientist by fate, and a computer scientist by accident. Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University, with research spanning complex systems, computational neuroscience, and machine learning applied to sleep and circadian science.

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Co Lead

Dr Mario Miguel

A physiologist shaped by years of intensive chronobiology. Assistant Professor in Sleep Science at Northumbria University, with interests spanning sleep neurophysiology, circadian rhythms, mental health, and machine learning for physiological and behavioural signal processing.

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Researcher

Dr Nayantara Santhi

Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at Northumbria University. Research spans non-visual effects of light, circadian timing and temperature as zeitgebers, insomnia interventions, and sleep in microgravity. Previously at Surrey Sleep Research Centre and Harvard Medical School.

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Visiting Research Fellow

Dr Julia Vallim

Postdoctoral research fellow at the Federal University of São Paulo, focusing on how circadian rhythms influence health and disease. Specialises in actigraphy data analysis for predicting health outcomes and has experience with wearable sleep technology.

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Engineer

Sam Gowland

An engineer turned computer scientist, prototyping hardware devices for Circadia Lab projects. Brings a hands-on, hardware-aware perspective to digital and computational problems at the intersection of engineering and sleep research.

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