Walker Scot Jackson is an associate professor at the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine, Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. (Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics) in 2003 from the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. He was a research group leader at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. He studies how specific brain regions are targeted in various neurodegenerative diseases. He is also interested in understanding how poor sleep affects the onset and progression of neurodegenerative disease.