Karine Spiegel PhD

Karine Spiegel is a tenured INSERM (French National Institute for Health and Medical Research) scientist at Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL; https://www.crnl.fr/).

Her primary work carried out in the Laboratory of Drs. Follenius and Brandenberger in France contributed to demonstrate that sleep and circadian rhythmicity were major contributors to the 24h pattern of endocrine secretions. Pursuing her interest in the effects of sleep on human physiology, she conducted pioneer clinical studies in Prof. Van Cauter’s Laboratory at the University of Chicago, which indicated that recurrent sleep curtailment, an increasingly common behavior in modern society, may be a risk factor for diabetes and obesity. Her recent and current work focuses on the impact of various sleep characteristics (duration, quality, timing, regularity) on the pathophysiology of metabolic diseases in children, adolescents and adults who are lean, obese and/or diabetics. Her main objective is to determine the putative therapeutic effects of optimizing sleep on metabolic outcomes.

Karine Spiegel has received several awards including the "2001 Sleep Research Society Young Investigator Award", the “2002 Belgian Association for the Study of Sleep Award", the "2006 Belgian Endocrine Lecture award", and the "2007 Outstanding Research Award of the Sleep Research Society". She has served as an associate editor of the “Journal of Sleep Research” (2012 to present), and as an editorial board member of “Sleep” (2006 to 2012) and of “Clocks and Sleep” (2019 to present). She was a member of the Scientific Council of the French Society of Research and Medicine of Sleep. She has co-authored nearly 70 original research papers, review articles, and chapter books.