Thomas Penzel has been the Director of Research at the Interdisciplinary Sleep Medicine Centre at the Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, since 2006. He studied physics, human biology, physiology, and medical informatics at the University of Marburg, Germany. In 2001, he received the Bial Award in Clinical Medicine in Portugal, in 2008 the Bill Gruen Award for Innovations in Sleep Research by the American Sleep Research Society, and in 2012 the Somnus Award by the Sleep magazine in Germany. He is a Fellow member of IEEE and vice-president of publications of IEEE Engineering in medicine and biology and he is the president of the German Sleep Society. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Sleep and Breathing and in the board of other journals. He mainly studies sleep research and sleep medicine with a focus on methodology, sleep-disordered breathing, and the cardiovascular system during sleep. He has an h-Index of 61, and his papers have been cited more than 18,300 times (Scopus, 18 October 2023).