Can humans hibernate? | Vladyslav Vyazovskiy | TEDxLimassol

The question "could humans hibernate?" is among very few big questions that still remain on a strong footing both in the domains of science and science fiction. The possibility of human hibernation has profound implications - from emergency medicine and longevity to long-distance space travel and surviving environmental disasters. Have we, humans, lost the capacity to hibernate, or we simply forgot how to do it?

Vladyslav Vyazovskiy is a professor of sleep physiology. He graduated from Kharkiv National University in 1997, and in 2004 he received his PhD degree at the University of Zurich. Following postdoctoral and lectureship positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Surrey University, he joined the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford in 2013 as a Senior Research Fellow, before becoming Associate Professor of Neuroscience in 2015 and Professor of Sleep Physiology in 2021. Since 2020, he is a Tutorial Fellow in Medicine at Hertford College, and is a member of Sir Jules Thorn Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute (SCNi) and Oxford's Kavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery.. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx