Claudio Lino Bassetti is a Full Professor and Chair of the Neurology Department Inselspital, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. He received his MD degree from the University of Basel in 1984. He trained in neurology in Bern and Lausanne and performed research fellowships in experimental neurophysiology (Basel) and sleep (Ann Arbor, USA). In 2000, he was appointed as Professor of Neurology at the University of Zurich. In 2009, he founded the Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland. Since 2012, he has been a Full Professor at the University of Bern and Director of the Neurology Department at Inselspital. He has been working throughout his career mainly as a general neurologist with a special interest in clinical skill teaching. Using human and animal approaches, he pioneered studies on sleep, sleep disorders, and stroke. He also made fundamental contributions to the etiology, pathophysiology, and management of human narcolepsy. He served as President of the European Neurological Society, European Sleep Research Society, and Swiss Neurological Society, and was the founder of the Swiss Federation of Clinical Neurosocieties. In 2018, he became an elected member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. He currently serves as President of the European Academy of Neurology and Dean of the Medical Faculty in Bern.