My fascination with sleep and its impact on our waking lives is deeply personal, stemming from my struggles with insomnia while growing up. In fact, the memory deficits I experienced after sleepless nights are what first sparked my interest in neuroscience.

This passion has translated into direct action. While living in Beirut, I was involved with NeuroNap, a startup that provided users with sleep quality feedback via cortisol measurements. More recently, as a PhD candidate in Montreal, I’ve explored sleep not only through my science, but also through a public engagement lens. As a multidisciplinary scientist and artist, my science-art project, “Fleeting Formations,” aimed to represent sleep as an active, constructive process and dreams as a window into our inner selves. I am eager to bring this blend of personal motivation, scientific experience, and creative communication to this initiative as a writer.