Professor 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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BioClocks UK: Driving robust cycles of discovery to impact, Rees, H., Rzechorzek, N., Hughes, R., Dodd, A., Hodge, J., Stevenson, T., von Schantz, M., Lucas, R., Reece, S., Kyriacou, C., Millar, A. 23 Jan 2025, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Body Mass Index, Sleep Architecture and Glucose Metabolism: Insights from the Baependi Heart Study, Mendes Pessoa, C., Taporoski, T., Beijamini, F., Alexandria, S., Krieger, J., von Schantz, M., Pereira, A., Knutson, K. 29 May 2025, In: Obesity
Gender-specific associations between sleep stages and cardiovascular risk factors, Taporoski, T., Beijamini, F., Alexandria, S., Aaby, D., Krieger, J., von Schantz, M., Pereira, A., Knutson, K. 1 Mar 2025, In: Sleep
Response to Martin-Olalla and Mira’s letter to the editor “Seasonal Daylight Saving Time in UK: a long-standing, successful record with few reasons to alter”, Crawford, M., Winnebeck, E., von Schantz, M., Gardani, M., Miller, M., Revell, V., Hare, A., Horton, C., Durrant, S., Steier, J. 18 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Sleep Research
The British Sleep Society position statement on Daylight Saving Time in the UK, Crawford, M., Winnebeck, E., von Schantz, M., Gardani, M., Miller, M., Revell, V., Hare, A., Horton, C., Durrant, S., Steier, J. 1 Jun 2025, In: Journal of Sleep Research
The persistence and complexity of disordered sleep in well-controlled HIV infection, von Schantz, M., Scheuermaier, K. 17 Apr 2025, In: Sleep
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. 1 Jan 2024, In: Sleep
Do not take their word for it—moving towards objective measures in sleep epidemiology, von Schantz, M., Knutson, K. 1 Mar 2024, In: Sleep
Gender differences in the relationship between sleep and age in a Brazilian cohort: the Baependi Heart Study, Taporoski, T., Beijamini, F., Alexandria, S., Aaby, D., von Schantz, M., Pereira, A., Knutson, K. 29 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Sleep Research
Heritability of sleep architecture based on home polysomnography, Leocadio-Miguel, M., Taporoski, T., Beijamini, F., Ruiz, F., Horimoto, A., Pereira, A., Knutson, K., von Schantz, M. 29 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Sleep Research

Professional Activity

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Invited talk: External time and internal clocks, and what happens when they disagree 2024
Invited talk: When external and internal time disagree 2024
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: 17th International Symposium on Neuropsychiatry & HIV 2024
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