Dr Robert Stickgold is a full professor of psychiatry in the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for Sleep and Cognition. With over 300 papers and 20,000 citations, Dr Stickgold has led groundbreaking research on the connections between sleep, learning and memory consolidation, as well as the dangers of sleep deprivation. He is an international keynote speaker at symposiums, universities and museums, and the co-author of When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep.