Russell G. Foster
Circadian neuroscience professor
Russell G. Foster is a British professor of circadian neuroscience at the University of Oxford, known for work on light-sensitive cells in the eye that shape our body clocks.
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About Russell G. Foster
Russell Grant Foster, born in 1959, is a British professor of circadian neuroscience at the University of Oxford. He has led the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute there. He and his research group are credited with key work on the light-sensitive retinal ganglion cells in the mammalian eye, which feed into the body's circadian rhythm system. He has contributed to over a hundred scientific publications, and he was made a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2015. Life Time is the title of his that we have in our catalog. His earlier books include Rhythms of Life as well as a short introduction to sleep.