Team

We are a small group of individuals who work with a lot of enthusiasm on our projects for better sleep and dreams.

The Institute of Sleep and Dream Technologies is led by Dr. Kristoffer Appel, who founded the institute in 2022 and has a background in sleep and dream research and technology development. Kristoffer has written his PhD thesis about sleep and dream technology and published several scientific articles in the field.

Furthermore, there are about 2-3 students working on one of our research projects and their theses with our support at any given time. Past topics have included targeted dream incubation, WiFi-based sleep tracking, AI-supported communication with lucid dreamers, and memory consolidation during sleep.

Moreover, there is a group of citizen scientists who either do research in our R&D projects or help us with other tasks around the institute. This group of team members is expected to grow in the future as we develop our new app and other tools for sleep and dream research that can be conducted at home.

We cooperate with other research institutions in Germany and abroad, and we are always looking for new partners who share our interest in sleep and dream technologies and want to collaborate with us. We have published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals together with researchers from the following institutions: Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, Germany; Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands; Department of Psychology, University of Swansea, Swansea, UK; Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, US; Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, US; Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Paris, France; Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

If you are interested in joining us, please fill out our get involved form and let us know about your skills and interests. We look forward to hearing from you!

This page will be updated soon with more information about our team members and their roles.