PhD positie: Sleep and sleep related breathing disorders in childhood epilepsy and children with complex neurological disorders

You will be part of the Leuven Childhood Epilepsy Center, a multidisciplinary center of expertise embedded within UZ Leuven and KU Leuven, and affiliated with the Leuven Brain Institute and the Department of Development and Regeneration. The center combines state-of-the-art clinical care with innovative translational research on epilepsy, behavior, cognition, and brain development in children.

You will join a multidisciplinary team with expertise in pediatric neurology, sleep medicine, epilepsy, neurophysiology, polysomnography, cognitive development, and complex neurological disorders. The research group has extensive experience in long-term video-EEG monitoring, analysis of sleep macro- and microarchitecture, developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEE), drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), epilepsy surgery, and longitudinal clinical cohort studies.

Within this highly collaborative environment, you will work closely with pediatric neurologists, pulmonologists, slee...