Even to many in Estonia Kene Vernik is known as a singer with an amazing voice, she knows the limits of human capacity through solo sailing and working with sleep-related problems. Solo sailors have to cope often with chronic sleep deprivation and other extreme limits of human capacity.

Since 2006 Kene has been working as a Sleep Counsellor and Sleep Technologist. She worked for The Psychiatry Clinic of the University of Tartu and is working now for 4Clinic's Nordic Sleep Centre. Kene has studied at the University of Tartu. In addition, she learned Mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques in the program by the University of Massachusetts. Kene is a member of the Estonian Sleep Medicine Association, The European Sleep and Research Society and the European Society of Sleep Technologists.