Jan Born

Jan Born (born March 30, 1958, in Celle, Germany) is a neuroscientist who researches the role of sleep in memory consolidation, problem solving, and brain plasticity. He is Head of the [https://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/en-de/das-klinikum/einrichtungen/institute/medizinische-psychologie Institute of Medical Psychology and the Behavioral Neurobiology] department at the University of Tübingen.

Born serves as the Deputy Editor of SLEEP, the Section Editor of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, and the Associate Editor of the Journal of Sleep Research.

In 1988 Born received the Marius Tausk-Award from the German Society for Endocrinology. In 2010 he received the Leibniz Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2017, he received the Oswald-Külpe Award, with the award citation emphasizing that in his "very innovative studies, he was able to prove that it is not REM sleep, but deep sleep that is crucial for the transmission of information to the long-term memory of the brain and thus for memory formation."

Born is a member of the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Provided by Wikipedia