Ramin Khatami is an associate professor of neurology at the University of Bern and head of the Center for Sleep Medicine and Epileptology at the Klinik Barmelweid, Switzerland. Ramin Khatami received his doctorate from the Free University of Berlin and worked with a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Neurological Clinic of the University Hospital (Prof. Dr. C. Bassetti) and at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Department of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms (Prof. Dr. A. Borbèly). In 2008, he qualified as a professor at the University of Zurich and became head of sleep medicine, epileptology and sleep research at the Klinik Barmelweid with 11 fully equipped beds for outpatient and inpatient patients. The clinic offers a special cognitive behavioral program for insomnia in an inpatient setting. Prof. Khatami's research focuses on the diagnosis and pathophysiology of sleep disorders of central origin. He was one of the founding members of the European Narcolepsy Network (EU-NN). He is responsible for the international EU-NN database on narcolepsy and related disorders. Since 2018, he has been working with Prof. Bassetti in the national SPHYNCS project (Swiss Primary Hypersomnolence and Narcolepsy Study Cohort (SPHYNCS)) to investigate the neurobiology of sleepiness in a multimodal approach involving genetics, immunology, microbiome, electrophysiology and wearables. The project was recently extended internationally to other European countries (Germany, Italy and the Netherlands). Prof. Khatami is Vice President of the Swiss Narcolepsy Sleep Network (SNaNe) and Vice President of the European Narcolepsy Network (EU-NN).

Salome Kurth is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Fribourg. Her research interests include the maturation of sleep rhythms, the neurophysiology of sleep across the entire developmental period, cognitive development in early childhood, and its interactions with family context, nutrition, and the gut microbiome.

Since 2019, she has held an SNF Eccellenza Fellowship at the University of Fribourg. Prior to her position in Fribourg, she held a Junior Start-up Grant from the Clinical Research Priority Program "Sleep and Health" at the University of Zurich, within the Departments of Neurology and Pulmonology at the University Hospital Zurich (2016 - 2018). Between 2012 and 2016, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Salome completed her PhD in 2011 at the University of Zurich as part of the International PhD Program in Neuroscience at the Neuroscience Center Zurich and earned her M.Sc. in Biology in 2007 at the University of Bern.

Björn Rasch is Professor of Cognitive Biopsychology and Methods at the University of Fribourg. He has been active in sleep research for over 25 years and has published over 100 scientific articles and several books on the topic of sleep. His research focuses on how psychological processes (e.g., thoughts, imagery, emotions, etc.) influence sleep.

Claudio Bassetti has been a full professor of neurology at the Inselspital in Bern since 2012 and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Bern since 2020. Prof. Bassetti obtained his medical degree in Basel, completed neurological training in Bern and Lausanne, and completed research fellowships in Basel, Michigan, Boston, and Minneapolis. Bassetti's interests include caring for patients with a wide range of neurological disorders, researching the relationship between sleep and brain diseases (e.g., narcolepsy, stroke), and training new generations in general neurology and sleep medicine. Bassetti is the author of >600 publications (H-index>105) and >10 books. He launched the MAS in Sleep Medicine and the CAS in Brain Health at the University of Bern and is currently still the chairman of these programs. Prof. Bassetti was President of the EAN (2019–2022), the European Academy of Neurology, the European Sleep Research Society, and the Swiss Neurological Society. Prof. Bassetti launched EAN Brain Health in 2022 and the Swiss Brain Health Plan in 2023. He has been Vice President of the EBC since 2023.