Melly Oitzl | |
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Born | 1955 (age 68–69) Lind/Arnoldstein |
Nationality | Austrian |
Education | University of Düsseldorf |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Behavioural neuroscience |
Institutions | Leiden University |
Thesis | (1989) |
Melly S. Oitzl (in full: Maria-Silvana Oitzl, born 1955 in Lind/Arnoldstein) is an Austrian behavioral neuroscientist. She is associate professor of medical pharmacology at Leiden University [1] and adjunct professor of cognitive neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam. [2] Oitzl is mainly interested in the relationships between stress, cognition, and emotion. [3] She obtained her Ph.D. with the mention magna cum laude in 1989 from the University of Düsseldorf. [4] Oitzl is a member of the board of the Earth and Life Sciences division of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, [5] from which she had received an "Aspasia" grant in 2008. [6] She has been a member of the executive committee and a treasurer of the European Brain and Behaviour Society. [7] According to the Web of Science, Oitzl has published more than 130 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, which have been cited over 5000 times, with an h-index of 33. [8]
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