The Current Working Time Society Board

Claudia Moreno is Associate Professor at the Departamento de Saúde Ambiental at the Univeristy of São Paolo

Drew Dawson

Arne Lowden, Associate Professor, is currently working as a sleep and stress researcher at the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University in Sweden and at Karolinska Institutet. He has studied adaptation to work in shiftwork and adolescence, evaluated self-selected workhours, done experimental studies on night eating and sleep. Lately he studies effects on sleep & recuperation using bright light in working life. He is on the Editorial Board of the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health and the Sleep Science Journal.

Current Directors

Adam Fletcher PhD started his career as a scientific researcher, investigating fatigue in workplace environments.After completing his PhD in 1999, he worked in research roles for the University of South Australia and the United States Army.

Since setting up Integrated Safety Support in 2006 to provide risk-based fatigue management services and training products to industry, he has worked with a wide variety of clients in Australia and overseas.

In the last three years clients that Adam has worked with include: Australia Post, BHP Billiton, BIS Industries, BP Australia, Esso, Fortescue Metals Group, Linfox, the QLD Department of Transport,Origin Energy, QR National, and Toll Energy.He has also been engaged for fatigue expert advice by NASA, the World Health Organization and Zurich Risk Engineering.

Masaya Takahashi Ph.D. has been engaging research on sleep and circadian problems associated with work schedules for over 20 years at National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan. He serves as member, councilor, or secretary for professional societies including European Sleep Research Society, Sleep Research Society (United States), Japan Society for Occupational Health, Japanese Society of Sleep Research, and Integrated Sleep Medicine Society Japan. He also work as Editorial Board members for Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, Frontiers in Neurology (Frontiers in Sleep and Chronobiology), and Industrial Health

Sampsa Puttonen (1/2)

 

Imelda Wong (1/2) is a PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia, Canada and has been

a member of WTS since 2008. She is in the final year of her dissertation which examines shiftwork, stress and 

interdisciplinary approach combining health psychology, epidemiology, exercise physiology and occupational hygiene. She has also conducted a study using a nation-wide survey to examine the risk of injury among shiftworkers.

Automatic Board Members and additional functions

Former President Giovanni Costa (31/12/2010-31/12/2013)
Prof. Costa was born in 1947 and graduated in Medicine in 1972 from Padua University. He later became a full Professor of Occupational Medicine at the University of Milan, and Director of the Unit “Occupational Medicine 2” of the “Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico” Foundation in Milan.
He has been a member of the Board of the International Commission of Occupational Health (ICOH) since 2009 and chair of the ICOH Scientific Committee on “Shiftwork and Working Time”, as well as President of the Working Time Society since 2004. His research  focuses on Work Physiology, Chronobiology, Shift Work and Working Hours, Ergonomics, Stress, Ageing at work, Work Disabilities, and Respiratory disorders. Prof. Costa is the author or more than 350 scientific papers published in scientific journals, books and proceedings of international and national congresses.

Former Secretary Sonia Hornberger (31/12/2010-31/12/2013)
Sonia Hornberger studies Human resource management at the Economic University Bratislava, Slovakia. She joint the research group of Peter Knauth at the University of Karlsruhe (K.I.T.), Germany, resarch topcis ergonomic shiftrotas, working time flexibility, work-life-balance, aging workforce (1989-2004). Since 2005 she works at Audi Ingolstadt, Germany, responsible for working time arrangements and academic cooperation projects. She has a teaching positions at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt and Technical University Chemnitz. Member of ICOH and WTS since 1990.

Website Johannes Gaertner

Mailing List Friedhelm Nachreiner

Shiftwork International Newsletter Philip Bohle
Professor of Work and Health, Work and Health Research Team at the
Ageing, Work and Health and Research of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney

Active ICOH members and Shiftwork and Working Time sub-committee: