Dr. Samantha Riedy is an O2X Sleep Specialist with expertise on the effects of sleep loss, shift work, and circadian misalignment on performance in operational settings. Over the past eight years, she has conducted operational research with police officers, cargo pilots, nurses, ultramarathoners, and workers in other operations, as well as in-laboratory research with shift work and sleep deprivation protocols.Samantha earned her master’s degree and PhD in Experimental Psychology with an emphasis in Statistics from Washington State University in Spokane, Washington. Samantha completed an internship during her master’s studies in the 711th Human Performance Wing, the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. During her doctoral research, Samantha examined and modeled how sleep loss, shift work, and fatigue impact police performance and police-community relationships.Samantha is also a Registered Polysomnographic Technician, with experience running clinical diagnostic and titration sleep studies and scoring polysomnographic records for research laboratories. Samantha is a member of the Sleep Research Society, Australasian Sleep Association, Working Time Society, and European Sleep Research Society. She has published her research in top journals, presented her research at government institutes, universities, and companies around-the-world, and her research has been picked up by a number of policing magazines.