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About the Author
For over 40 years, Dr. Moore-Ede has been a leading world expert on circadian clocks and the health problems caused by electric light at night. As a professor at Harvard Medical School (1975 – 1998), he led the team that located the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the biological clock in the human brain that controls the timing of sleep and wake, and pioneered research on how circadian clocks regulate the timing of body functions. His book, The Clocks That Time Us: Physiology of the Circadian Timing System (Harvard University Press), became the leading textbook in hundreds of college courses.
In 1983 Dr Moore-Ede founded the global consulting and technology firm, CIRCADIAN® (https://www.circadian.com/) with offices in Boston, London, Amsterdam, Osaka, and Brisbane which applies circadian physiology to improve 24/7 workforce productivity, health, and safety to clients that include over half of the Fortune 500. His experience in applying circadian science to 24/7 industry is described in his international best-selling book, The Twenty-Four Hour Society: Understanding Human Limits in a World That Never Stops (USA and Canada edition: Addison-Wesley, 1993, UK edition: Piatkus Books; German edition: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag; Australian and New Zealand edition: Random House Australia; Japanese edition: Kodansha; Chinese edition: China Times Publishing Co).
To address his clients’ growing concerns about the harmful effects of conventional fluorescent and LED lighting on workforce health, safety, and performance, Dr Moore-Ede founded the Circadian Light Research Center in 2010 and spun off the tech start-up CIRCADIAN ZircLight in 2011. He led the team that identified the key blue signal that synchronizes circadian clocks, and developed patented LED lights, which provide circadian optimized light across day and night based on comprehensive medical research. For more than 5 years the effectiveness of these circadian-modulated lights has been validated by installing them in the 24-hour operations of Fortune 500 companies and hospitals. To make this technology more widely available, the proprietary IP portfolio and lighting assets of CIRCADIAN ZircLight were acquired by Korrus in 2022 and licensed to several leading lighting companies.
Dr. Moore-Ede graduated with a First Class Honors degree in Physiology from the University of London, received his medical degrees from Guy’s Hospital Medical School, and his Ph.D. in Physiology from Harvard University. He has published 10 books and more than 160 scientific papers on the physiology of the circadian system, interaction with environmental light, and the consequences of circadian disruption including human fatigue, errors and accidents. Dr. Moore-Ede holds multiple patents on assessing and mitigating circadian disruption and fatigue.
Moore-Ede has served on multiple national and international committees and has received numerous awards including the Bowditch Lectureship of the American Physiological Society. He is a frequent guest on television (CNN, Today Show, Good Morning America, 20:20, Dateline, Oprah Winfrey, Nova, BBC), radio (NPR Fresh Air, Connection), and print media (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Time and Newsweek). He has testified before Congressional committees on multiple occasions and advised government agencies on the health and safety of the 24/7 workforce in the US, Canada and Europe.
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