Arne Lowden

Arne works as a sleep-and stress researcher and my research profile is “circadian rhythms, light behaviour, and sleep”. With sleep as a specialty, Arne is currently one of 30 certified sleep specialists now working in Sweden. He has primarily studied the adjustment problems for shift workers and flight personnel. He has also done studies of self-selected work hours, conducted experimental studies of nutrition and sleep, and studied how alertness, learning and performance can be improved in school. Recently, he has devoted time to studies, which includes effects of sleep and recovery from light impact in so-called light room, light at the school, lighting in windowless rooms, driving behavior at night in younger and older drivers and the effects of mobile phone use on sleep. Arne is also active as a teacher, which includes responsibility for the training course sleep, at the distance course "Lifestyle and Health" at SLU and also responsible for the training course element "Work Psychology and Health" in Psychology at the Karolinska Institute. He has actively participated in several conferences, nationally and internationally and have developed training materials for many courses, including "Shiftwork Driving Licence", published in collaboration with Prevent and "Food and sleep school" from the Swedish Dairy Association.