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Bios September 8, 2021

Fiona C Baker

Director of Center for Health Sciences and Human Sleep Research Program, Biosciences Division

Fiona Baker, Ph.D. is the Director of the Human Sleep Research Program at SRI International, which she joined in 2005. She focuses on understanding the interplay between sleep physiology and human health across the lifespan. Baker is a world expert on issues of sleep in women. Her areas of research include sleep EEG, sex differences in sleep, sleep in menopause, relationships between sleep and cardiovascular functioning, and interactions between brain development, sleep, and behaviors such as alcohol use, across adolescence.

Baker has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, and is currently PI on two consortium projects about adolescent development: The National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) and the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study (ABCD). She has published extensively on issues of sleep in women in the context of reproductive stages; her research has advanced understanding of insomnia that develops during the menopausal transition, and revealed interactions between the female reproductive system and sleep and circadian regulatory systems.

Baker also holds an appointment as Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in the Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Baker has published more than 80 scientific papers and has a Ph.D. degree in physiology from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

View Baker’s publications on Research Gate and Google Scholar.

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Call to action: an open-source pipeline for standardized performance evaluation of sleep-tracking technology   (2/22/2023) - There is an urgent need for standardized, rigorous, and open-source tools that the community can access in a timely manner…
Prior test experience confounds longitudinal tracking of adolescent cognitive and motor development  (2/22/2023) - We measured change in cognitive and motor abilities over four test sessions in participants from the National Consortium on Alcohol…
It’s Not Just About the Hot Flashes: Menopausal Hormone Changes and Disrupted Sleep  (1/22/2023) - Sleep disturbances are common during the menopausal transition, being reported by more than half of midlife women
Adolescent alcohol use is linked to disruptions in age-appropriate cortical thinning: an unsupervised machine learning approach  (1/22/2023) - In this study, adolescents from the NCANDA study who endorsed little to no alcohol use at baseline were assessed with…
Social Epidemiology of Early Adolescent Cyberbullying in the United States (12/21/2022) - Abstract   Objective To determine the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of cyberbullying victimization and perpetration among a racially, ethnically and socioeconomically…
Wearable and mobile technology to characterize daily patterns of sleep, stress, presleep worry, and mood in adolescent insomnia  (12/21/2022) - There is a bidirectional relationship between daily stress and sleep, with daily stress negatively impacting sleep, which in turn leads…

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