Anna Heidbreder is a neurologist and sleep physician currently as a senior consultant and deputy head of the sleep laboratory at the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria). After her studies, which she completed at the Ruhr University in Bochum (Germany), she did her specialist training as a neurologist at the Department of Neurology at the University of Münster (Germany). She has been involved in sleep medicine for 15 years. Her scientific focus is on diseases with excessive daytime sleepiness and central disorders of hypersomnolence. Her habilitation paper dealt with the subject of idiopathic hypersomnia. She is a member of national and international scientific societies and author and coauthor of numerous publications. Since 2020 she is a member of the board of the German Society for Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine. She started to cooperate with EU-NN in 2013.