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Martha Merrow
CHRONOBIOLOGIST
Professor Martha Merrow was born and educated in the United States, studying biology and immunogenetics until finding her current research interest, the biological clock. She has made contributions with respect to how light and temperature entrain the circadian systems of simple organisms. She has worked in the U.S., the Netherlands and now Germany, where she chairs the department of Medical Psychology at the LMU Medical School.