Integrate polysomnography into CAAN studies, including designing and implementing standard operating procedures for overnight ambulatory and/or in-lab polysomnography, leading vendor and device selection, validation against gold-standard systems, and integrating data streams with existing physiological pipelines., Establish quality assurance procedures for signal integrity, electrode application, and participant compliance in home-based recordings., Score sleep stages and arousals using manual and automated approaches and supervise quality control of scoring., Develop and apply quantitative EEG analyses, including slow-wave activity, spindle detection, slow-oscillation–spindle coupling, and spectral measures across NREM and REM., Analyze autonomic activity during sleep, including heart rate variability and sleep-stage–specific changes in sympathetic/parasympathetic balance., Link sleep metrics to primary outcomes such as LC structure and function (MRI), CSF and plasma biomarkers, proteomic markers of mitochondrial stress, daytime autonomic measures, and cognitive and affective outcomes., Work with the CAAN statistician/data manager to incorporate sleep variables into reproducible, BIDS-compliant analysis pipelines and longitudinal models., Mentor and supervise postdocs, graduate students, and junior staff., Shape the long-term scientific agenda for sleep research within CAAN and represent this work at international conferences., Lead first-author and collaborative manuscripts on sleep findings from CAAN datasets., Develop and lead independent grant applications as principal or co-investigator., Cultivate international collaborations and partnerships in sleep, autonomic neuroscience, and neurodegeneration research., Contribute to CAAN's open-science efforts, including data sharing in standardized formats and code release for analysis pipelines.
