Shireen Sindi

Shireen Sindi, PhD is Associate Professor (Docent) at Karolinska Institute, Center for Alzheimer Research, Division of Clinical Geriatrics, Department of Neurobiology Care Sciences and Society, Sweden. She investigates the intricate relationships between sleep disturbances, stress, and sex differences across the spectrum from normal aging to Alzheimer’s disease. She also examines multi-system biological mechanisms contributing to cognitive decline and dementia risk factors and explores the impacts of multidomain lifestyle interventions encompassing diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular/metabolic risk management on cognition and sleep including underlying mechanisms such as telomere length and the gut microbiome. In addition to research, she is actively involved in supervising and mentoring students and postdocs at various levels at several institutes (Karolinska Institute, Imperial College London, Stockholm University, University of Eastern Finland), and takes on various leadership roles, such as Chair for Junior Faculty and Chair for National Junior Faculty, Leader of the Sex and Gender Work Group at the Center for Alzheimer Research, and Leader of the International Work Group on Sex and Gender for World Wide FINGERS