– Centre Director
Chris's formal interest in sleep began in Edinburgh where he earned his PhD working with Emeritus Professor Ian Oswald, the UK's founding father of sleep research.

After Edinburgh he went to study anxiety and fear in Cambridge (Medical Research Council) before setting up and running the Janssen Research Foundation's clinical pharmacology sleep laboratory in Oxford.

From there he left to become Deputy Head of the Human Psychopharmacology Research Unit at the Robens Institute of Health and Safety, Surrey before setting up the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service. Chris helped found and then served as Chairman of the British Sleep Society.

He has also sat on the boards of the Sleep Medicine Research Foundation, the European Sleep Research Society and the U.S Sleep Research Society. He was founding Chairman of the Royal Society of Medicine Forum on sleep and its disorders and guided its transition to become the Sleep Medicine Section.

He has held many honorary appointments, both health authority (Oxford) and University (e.g Queen's University of Belfast, Visiting Professor, Surrey University) he has also contributed to various sleep-related charitable organisations (e.g. Finland's Unettomat) as well as publishing numerous papers and books on sleep, including "Learn to sleep well" (Duncan Baird, 2000), "Beating Insomnia" (2003), "The Insomnia Kit" (Viking Penquin, 1999), "Serotonin, Sleep and Mental Disorder" (1991), "Sleep (HarperCollins, 2007)", "The Good Sleep Box" (Eddison Sadd, 2007) and maintaining a web presence (www.neuronic.com). He recently recorded a series of podcasts for British Airways and videos for VideoJug (video).