Dr Christine Blume and science journalist Ilka Eliana Knigge have been awarded this year's prize for science communication and science journalism by the German Psychological Society (DGPs) for their podcast ‘About Sleep’.

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Prof. Christian Cajochen was recently interviewed by SELF magazine. In the article entitled "Why a Full Moon Might Mess With Your Sleep, According to Science", he discusses research into the relationship between sleep and the lunar phase. You can read the full interview here.

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Our Chronobiology team enjoyed a refreshing Chrono-hike in the beautiful mountains of Engelberg, Switzerland, with a clear blue sky and sunny weather. We had a great time together, enjoying the amazing views and the beauty of nature all around us.

A big thanks to Dr. Christine Blume for organizing this wonderful day!

We are thrilled to announce that our PhD student, Fatemeh (Mahsa) Fazlali, has been awarded the J. Christian Gillin Young Investigator Award at the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms (SLTBR) conference in Prague this year.

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Psychologist and sleep researcher Dr. Christine Blume from the Centre for Chronobiology has been awarded the Biopsychology 2024 Research Prize by the Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology Section of the German Psychological Society.

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From 29 February to 21 March, the Interfinity Festival 2024 took place in Basel under the direction of Lukas Loss. Researchers from the Centre for Chronobiology were also involved. Listen to a report on the festival in the Deutschlandfunk Kultur podcast "Tonart" here.

In "Claritas. Obscuritas" we dedicate ourselves to chronobiology and daylight research. The multidisciplinary performance deals with "light" and its effects on humans.

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Light in the evening is thought to be bad for sleep. However, does the colour of the light play a role? Researchers from the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich compared the influence of different light colours on the human body. The researchers’ findings contradict the results of a previous study in mice.

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When Mattia Balsamini and Raffaele Panizza — authors of Protege Noctem — visited the Centre for Chronobiology in Basel to gain first-hand insights into our work in human research on light, chronobiology and sleep, we had no idea what the final artwork would look like.

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Congratulations to our PhD students Fatemeh Fazlali for winning a prize for her outstanding scientific poster and to Rafael Lazar for winning a travel grant for an excellent abstract submission at the SLTBR conference.

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