Virginie Sterpenich

Employment

• University of Geneva Senior Research Associate
  2020 - Present
• University of Geneva Research Associate
  2017 - 2020
• Fondation Campus Biotech Manager of the Clinical and Sleep Research Unit
  2016 - Present
• University of Geneva Research and Teaching fellow
  2011 - 2017
• University of Geneva Postdoctoral researcher
  2008 - 2011
• University of Liège PhD student
  2004 - 2008

Education

• Université Paris Diderot Master on the Pathologies of wake and sleep in children (DIU)
  2018 - 2020
• University of Liege PhD in Science
  2004 - 2008
• University of Liège Supplemental Master in biology, option Neuroscience
  2003 - 2004
• University of Liège Master in Animal Biology
  2001 - 2003
• University of Liège Bachelor in Biology
  1998 - 2001

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (61)

• Sodium Oxybate Alters Sleep Architecture and Reduces Emotional Selectivity in Memory‐Related Responses
  Journal of Sleep Research 2026 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.70386
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• The nutritional and metabolic impact of night shift work in a real-world setting
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.19.25338338
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• Influence of parental rules about screen electronic device use in the evening on sleep in adolescents
  Discover Public Health 2025 DOI: 10.1186/s12982-025-00923-w
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• Scream's roughness grants privileged access to the brain during sleep.
  Scientific reports 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-01560-8
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• Impact of spindle-inspired transcranial alternating current stimulation during a nap on sleep-dependent motor memory consolidation in healthy older adults.
  Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society 2025 DOI: 10.1093/sleepadvances/zpaf022
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• The cathartic dream: Using a large language model to study a new type of functional dream in healthy and clinical populations.
  Journal of sleep research 2025 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.70001
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• Evidence for an emotional adaptive function of dreams: a cross-cultural study.
  Scientific reports 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43319-z
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• Brain reactivity to emotion persists in NREM sleep and is associated with individual dream recall.
  Cerebral cortex communications 2022 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgac003
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• Reward-driven modulation of spatial attention in the human frontal eye-field.
  NeuroImage 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118846
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• Quarreling After a Sleepless Night: Preliminary Evidence of the Impact of Sleep Deprivation on Interpersonal Conflict.
  Affective science 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s42761-021-00076-4
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