Vladyslav Vyazovskiy graduated from Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, in 1997, and in 2004 he received his PhD degree at the University of Zurich. Following postdoctoral and lecturership positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Surrey University, he joined the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG) at the University of Oxford in 2013 as a Senior Research Fellow, before becoming Associate Professor of Neuroscience in 2015 and Professor of Sleep Physiology in 2021. Since 2020, he is a Tutorial Fellow in Medicine at Hertford College, and is a member of Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) and Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery. Vladyslav Vyazovskiy is a Vice-President of the European Sleep Research Society and a Director of Graduate Studies at DPAG. His research interests include neurobiology of sleep and torpor, ageing, behaviour, neuropharmacology and mechanisms of brain oscillations during waking and sleep.