The Winter School explores how novel sleep technologies shape everyday life and clinical practice through at-home monitoring with wearables, nearables, and self-applied systems. Through lectures, hands-on labs, and team challenges, participants examine the technical, clinical, and translational dimensions of sleep technology, supported by expertise from four partner universities and industry. Together with clinicians, neuroscientists, engineers, data scientists, and industry partners participants will discuss device architectures and signal acquisition, study design and validation frameworks, integration of subjective app-based measures with sensor data, translation and regulation, usability and compliance, and clinical decision support.
Key Topics
- Foundations in sleep physiology/pathophysiology and measurement modalities
- At-home technologies (wearables, nearables, self-applied)
- Biomedical signal processing and AI methods used to acquire, quality-check, analyze, and integrate multimodal sleep data
- Evaluating translation to practice by using sleep-society recommendations and regulatory principles to plan validation, usability/compliance, and clinical integration
Program Structure
Over the course of four days, the Winter School will feature:
- Foundational lectures on sleep physiology/pathophysiology, sensing principles, data quality and validation
- Hands-on labs
- Challenge based projects
Before the Winter School, there will be an online Kick-Off meeting in January 2027.
Target Group
- Advanced Bachelor students
- Master students
- PhD candidates
Applicants should have a background in neuroscience, psychology, biomedical engineering, computer science/data science, medicine, or related fields.
All target groups must be either NeurotechEU students or University of Bonn employees. Candidates from other study programs or institutions are not eligible. Synapses participants are particularly encouraged to apply.
Selected participants will receive a fully funded NeurotechEU scholarship to cover travel and accommodation expenses