Dr. Robert Herold is an epidemiologist and the head of Health Services Research at the Institute for Occupational and Maritime Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at the University of Greifswald and was awarded a scholarship by the State Scholarship Program of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Recently, he conducted an intervention study on lighting and shift work. He has published papers in the fields of epidemiology and health services research in various journals and is a member of the German Society for Epidemiology (DGEpi).