Eva Winnebeck

Eva Winnebeck is a Lecturer in Chronobiology at the University of Surrey's School of Biosciences (Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences). She leads the Sleep Rhythm Ecology Group and serves as the School Lead for Athena SWAN (Gender Equality). Her research focuses on circadian rhythms, social jetlag, daylight saving time policies, and educational timing effects on academic performance. She holds affiliations as a Senior Scientist at the Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany, and is an elected member of the European Sleep Research Society's Scientific Committee.

Key areas of expertise include chronotype analysis, sleep-wake patterns, and policy implications of biological timing. Her work bridges basic science with public health advocacy, particularly regarding daylight saving time abolition and school start time reforms. Notable contributions include longitudinal studies on flexible school schedules and systematic reviews on educational outcomes tied to circadian misalignment.

Her recent publications emphasize the health impacts of daylight saving time, melatonin rhythm variations, and algorithm validation for sleep detection. She collaborates internationally on initiatives like the British Sleep Society's position statements on DST and contributes to methodological advancements in circadian phenotyping through questionnaire design.