Martin Moore-Ede M.D., Ph.D.

Martin Moore-Ede, M.D., Ph.D., has been a leading expert on circadian clocks and their regulation by light for over 40 years. 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. As founder and CEO of the global consulting firm Circadian, he pioneered technologies to help people safely adapt to working around the clock. His 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. He led the engineering team that developed 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. Because of these inventions, it is now possible to spectrally engineer light to reduce the risk of numerous diseases caused by circadian disruption, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

Dr. Moore-Ede’s new book, The Light Doctor: The Science and Solutions for Replacing Your Lights Now to Protect Your Health, released on Substack, exposes the epidemic of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer that has been caused by the poor design and misuse of electric lights. The book provides clear guidance on how to use healthy circadian lights to provide the right light at the right time of day.

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. Dr. Moore-Ede holds multiple patents on assessing and mitigating circadian disruption and fatigue and on circadian lighting systems.