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Michael Smith

Researcher

School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Telephone
+46 31-786 28 43
+46 766-18 28 43
Mail
michael.smith@amm.gu.se
Visiting address
Guldhedsgatan 5 A, plan 4
413 20 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 453
40530 Göteborg

About Michael Smith

Michael Smith is Associate Professor in Occupational and Environmental Medicine a research group leader at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He obtained his MSc in acoustics from the University of Salford in the UK his PhD in medicine from the University of Gothenburg. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Division of Sleep and Chronobiology at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA.

His research interests include the effects of environmental stressors on sleep, the effects of sleep fragmentation on cardiometabolic health, performance and work ability, and the health consequences of environmental noise exposure.

From 2016-2017 Dr. Smith was a visiting scholar at Manchester Metropolitan University School of Business and Law. He is a secretary of International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN). He is also a member of the Sleep Research Society, European Sleep Research Society, and the Swedish Association for Sleep Research & Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Smith serves on the editorial board of the journal Sleep Health and is an ad-hoc reviewer for over 20 journals including SLEEP, Science of the Total Environment, Communications Medicine, Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Research, npj Microgravity, and Journal of Sleep Research. His research has featured nationally and internationally on television, radio, newspapers and popular science press.