Sofia Eriksson

President Elect, 2025-2027

Dr Sofia Eriksson is a consultant neurologist and honorary associate professor at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) in London, specialising in epilepsy and neurological sleep disorders. She is the clinical lead for epilepsy and sleep neurology at NHNN.

Sofia studied medicine in her native Sweden, first in Lund and then in Gothenburg where she also started her specialist neurology training and PhD in epilepsy and cerebral malformations. In 1998 she joined the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy (DCEE) at the Institute of Neurology, UCL. After finishing her PhD, she took up a post doc with DCEE correlating MRI and histopathology. In 2008 she was appointed as consultant neurologist at NHNN and from then she has worked with neurological sleep disorders as well as epilepsy. She has extensive experience of work with guidelines and audit having served on the University College London Hospital trust wide guidelines committee and set up the local clinical guidelines committee at NHNN as well as being the departmental audit lead. In 2019 she took up the role as clinical lead for the epilepsy department in addition to sleep neurology. She is a member of the European Academy of Neurology’s Scientific Panel Sleep Wake Disorders. Her current research focuses on non-REM parasomnias.

Sofia joined the ABN epilepsy advisory group in 2015 and from 2019 she is a member of the ABN council.