Director

Penn State affiliations

• Social Science Research Institute (SSRI; co-funded faculty affiliate)
• Center for Health Aging (CHA)
• Population Research Institute (PRI) 
• Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS)
• Physiology IGDP
• Child Study Center (CSC)
• Neuroscience Institute
• The Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Scientific Applications (CENSAI)
• The Healthy-Inclusive-Productive (HIP) Workplace Initiative

Other Affiliation(s)

• Co-chair, Steering Committee of the Work, Family, and Health Network
• Faculty member, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
• Editorial Board member: Sleep Health; Sleep
• Editor in Chief, Sleep Health

Brief Biography

Dr. Buxton’s research primarily focuses on 1) the causes of chronic sleep deficiency in the workplace, home, and society;  2) the health consequences of chronic sleep deficiency, especially cardiometabolic outcomes; and 3) the physiologic and social mechanisms by which these outcomes arise. Successful aging is a central focus of this work. Ongoing interdisciplinary human studies involve sleep loss, and insomnia, as well as health disparities.

After earning a B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh and a stint as a small business owner, Dr. Buxton earned a doctoral degree in Neuroscience from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, working with Professors Eve Van Cauter and Fred Turek. He obtained post-doctoral training in sleep and endocrinology with Dr. Van Cauter at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Buxton co-founded the National Postdoctoral Association, a member-driven organization that provides a unique, national voice for postdoctoral scholars. Dr. Buxton currently serves as the second Editor in Chief of Sleep Health.