Prof Malcolm von Schantz

Deputy Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor

Department: Psychology

Malcolm von Schantz is an internationally recognised researcher and an experienced educator, who received his training in Sweden, the United States, and the UK. He has recently joined Northumbria from the University of Surrey, where he also served in leaderships positions as Associate Dean (International) and acting Pro-Vice Chancellor (International Relations). He is also an Honorary Professor at the Univeristy of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has received over £6.4 million in research funding from public and private sources including MRC, Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation, and US Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He currently holds research funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences (Newton Fund) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His research has been published in high-impact international journals and presented both at major scientific conferences and in broadcast, print, and web-based media worldwide.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research focuses on circadian rhythms and sleep in humans, their molecular determinants, and their relationship with physical and mental health.

Key Publications

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Altered sleep architecture in diabetes and prediabetes: findings from the Baependi Heart Study, Chen, D., Taporoski, T., Alexandria, S., Aaby, D., Beijamini, F., Krieger, J., von Schantz, M., Pereira, A., Knutson, K. 2 Sep 2023, In: Sleep
Delayed circadian rhythms in older Africans living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Redman, K., O'Brien, K., Ruiz, F., Rae, D., Gómez-Olivé, F., von Schantz, M., Scheuermaier, K. 1 Jan 2023, In: Journal of Pineal Research
Predicting depressive symptoms in middle-aged and elderly adults using sleep data and clinical health markers: a machine learning approach, Basilio Silva Gomez, S., von Schantz, M., Miguel, M. 1 Feb 2023, In: Sleep Medicine
0177 Relationship Between Sleep Architecture and Age by Gender in Brazil: Baependi Heart Study, Taporoski, T., Beijamini, F., Alexandria, S., Zumpf, K., von Schantz, M., Pereria, A., Knutson, K. 1 Jun 2022, In: Sleep
Effect of HIV Infection on Sleep and Chronotype in an Ageing Rural South African Cohort, O'Brien, K., Redman, K., Gómez-Olivé, F., Rae, D., Scheuermaier, K., von Schantz, M. 1 Dec 2022
Sleep Disturbances in HIV Infection and their Biological Basis, O'Brien, K., Riddell, N., Gomez-Olivé, X., Rae, D., Scheuermaier, K., von Schantz, M. 1 Oct 2022, In: Sleep Medicine Reviews
Subjective Sleep Quality Before and During the COVID-19 pandemic in a Brazilian Rural Population, Taporoski, T., Beijamini, F., Gomez, L., Ruiz, F., Ahmed, S., von Schantz, M., Pereira, A., Knutson, K. Apr 2022, In: Sleep Health
Associations between sleep disturbances, diabetes and mortality in the UK Biobank cohort: A prospective population-based study, von Schantz, M., Ong, J., Knutson, K. 1 Dec 2021, In: Journal of Sleep Research
Compared Heritability of Chronotype Instruments in a Single Population Sample, Leocadio-Miguel, M., Ruiz, F., Ahmed, S., Taporoski, T., Horimoto, A., Beijamini, F., Pedrazzoli, M., Knutson, K., Pereira, A., von Schantz, M. 1 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Biological Rhythms
Evening preference correlates with regional brain volumes in the anterior occipital lobe, Evans, S., Leocadio-Miguel, M., Taporoski, T., Gomez, L., Horimoto, A., Alkan, E., Beijamini, F., Pedrazzoli, M., Knutson, K., Krieger, J., Vallada, H., Sterr, A., Pereira, A., Negrão, A., von Schantz, M. 3 Aug 2021, In: Chronobiology International

Professional Activity

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Oral presentation: Disorders of sleep timing 2023
Invited talk: Studying sleep in a global context 2023
Invited talk: Back to the future: circadian rhythm disorders – sleep, shift work and travel 2023
Invited talk: Disorders of sleep timing 2023
Oral presentation: Delayed circadian rhythms in older Africans living with HIV 2022
Oral presentation: Defining robust sleep phenotypes for human genetic population studies 2022
Oral presentation: The UN sustainable development goals and their relevance to sleep research and sleep medicine 2022
Organising a conference, workshop, ...: World Sleep 2022 2022
Oral presentation: Perspectivas genômicas sobre as hipóteses do relógio circadiano nos transtornos psiquiátricos 2021
Invited talk: The Baependi Project 2021

Qualifications

Zoology PhD December 10 1994

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