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Philippe Peigneux is PhD in Psychological Sciences (2000; University of Liège [ULg], Belgium). He was (2006-2025) Tenure Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, where he was also co-director of the Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit (UR2NF; http://dev.ulb.ac.be/ur2nf) affiliated at CRCN and at the ULB Neurosciences Institute (UNI; http://uni.ulb.ac.be). Professor Peigneux was active in sleep research since 1996 and published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His research was mainly but not exclusively focused on investigating the relationships between sleep, learning and memory consolidation processes, and in a wider perspective the interrelationships between cognitive processes and vigilance states, including sleep and biological rhythms, both in healthy and pathological conditions, in adulthood and across children development. A specific focus was made on the processes by which novel representations are created and novel information consolidated in long-term memory. Studies were primarily conducted using behavioural and cognitive approaches and advanced structural (DTI) and functional (fMRI) magnetic resonance , Near InfraRed Spectroscopy (NIRS), electroencephalography (EEG) and magneto-encephalography (MEG) techniques. Philippe Peigneux is a member of the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) since 2001 and was part of the ESRS Scientific Committee (2006-2008) then Secretary in the ESRS Board (2008-2012), ESRS President (2012 – 2016) then Past-President (2016-2020).

He is since October 2025  ULB Honorary Professor (retired). Please note that he is not accepting anymore collaborations, PhDs or internships, if you are interested in these aspects please contact his senior faculty members colleagues at UR2NF