Martin Moore-Ede

For over 40 years, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede has been a leading expert on circadian clocks and their regulation by light, and a pioneer in applying this science to healthy lighting and living.

As a professor at Harvard Medical School (1975 – 1998), he led the team that located the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the biological clock in the human brain that controls the timing of sleep and wake. and showed how circadian clocks are disrupted by light at night. As founder and CEO of the global consulting firm CIRCADIAN® he pioneered technologies to help people safely adapt to working around the clock. His previous best-selling books “The Clocks That Time Us” and “The Twenty-Four Hour Society” are based on this work.

To address his clients’ growing concerns about the harmful effects of conventional fluorescent and LED lighting, Dr. Moore-Ede founded the Circadian Light Research Center in 2010. His discovery of the precise blue light wavelengths that are needed during the day but are harmful at night enabled the development of the first healthy white circadian lighting that automatically switches between blue-rich light during the day to entrain circadian rhythms, and zero blue light at night. This circadian lighting reduces the risk of numerous diseases caused by circadian disruption, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. The IP was licensed to major lighting companies and acquired by Korrus to scale up the delivery of healthy lighting to the world.

Dr. Moore-Ede graduated with a First-Class Honors degree in Physiology from the University of London and received his medical degrees from Guy’s Hospital Medical School, and his Ph.D. in Physiology from Harvard University. He holds multiple patents on assessing and mitigating circadian disruption and fatigue, and on circadian lighting systems.