As people work to older ages, maintaining good health and work ability is essential for a sustainable workforce. Cardiometabolic diseases (CMD), including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, remain major causes of disability and early retirement.

The current research project will investigate societal attitudes towards people with Neurodiversity (ND), including people with ASD and ADHD and its impact on their well-being and mental health.

Recovery is a key factor for well-being and performance. Recovery can be defined as the process of psychophysiological unwinding after effort, during which mental and physiological resources are replenished. Sleep is an important factor for recovery, but recovery can also take place through different recovery activities while awake.

What role does sleep play for our well-being, thoughts and performance in everyday life and are there differences between young and older adults? These are the main objectives that we will investigate in this project.

We investigate how sustained attention and attention towards emotional information is affected by sleep loss. We also measure the neurophysiological response using magnetoencephalography (MEG).

Shift work is an important work environment factor that contributes to work-related ill health and mortality. To reduce work-related ill-health and mortality, it is important to design shift schedules that meet our need for recovery, do not interfere more than necessary in social life, and reduce circadian rhythm disturbances.

Shift work, especially with night work, has a number of negative health effects. Several attempts have been made to create ergonomic recommendations on which factors constitute a good shift schedule, but the arguments are rather weak and based on individual studies at specific companies, with a certain schedule type (eg 3-shift) and without clear criteria.