Dr. Pawan K. Jha is a PhD (Neuroscience) from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the University of Strasbourg, France. As a post-doc at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Dr. Jha has worked with the molecular mechanism of sleep and circadian rhythms. He is serving as a review editor at Frontier of Neuroscience and guest editor at JOVE.
Dr. Hanan Bouaouda is a veterinary doctor (DVM). She completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Strasbourg, France, and Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, Rabat, Morocco. After her PhD, she worked on a variety of themes of sleep and circuitries at the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. She is currently working on brain thermoregulatory circuits and their implications in metabolic abnormalities at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Bouaouda won several international awards (the Takeda International Fellowship Program awarded by the Takeda Science Foundation in Japan and The Eiffel Excellence scholarship program awarded by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs).