Kamalesh Gulia

Kamalesh K Gulia is a passionate Sleep Scientist and Nature lover. She likes adventures and cherishes experiences of simple and unique countryside life travelling through various places in India and abroad capturing precious movements through photography. Children are her lifeline and she easily gels with people in all age-groups. Through this book, she shared the sleep wisdom with children, our future citizens, in understanding precious link of sleep with nature.

Dr Gulia is graduate from Delhi University who pursued sleep research while working as Post-doc Scientist in AIIMS, New Delhi. She moved to Fukushima Medical University, Japan in 2006 to learn high level state of art in electrophysiology availing IBRO International Fellowship. After her return, she joined Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum to initiate an unique Sleep Research Lab in 2010. She has received several awards including Dr BK Anand Oration Award 2021 by the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India); Dr Baldev Singh Oration Award 2019 by Association of Physiology and Pharmacology of India; Women Scientist's Award 2009 by DST, India; Young Investigator Award in 29th Annual Conference on Japanese Neuroscience Society (Japan, 2006); Young Scientist Award at the 4th Asian Sleep Research Society Congress (China, 2004); the Young Investigator Award by FAOPS in 34th IUPS congress (New Zealand, 2001); Best Poster at the 3rd Asian Sleep Research Society Congress (Thailand, 2000); and CSIR-NET Award with Fellowship in 1991. She has trained several PhD students and researchers and is the Associate-Editor of Journal Sleep and Vigilance. She conducts National and International conferences, workshops and sleep awareness programs regularly.