Melly Oitzl

Melly S. Oitzl (actually Maria Silvana Oitzl; * 1955 in Lind / Arnold Stein) is an Austrian neurobiologist. It is high school teacher in medical pharmacology at the University of Leiden and Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam. Oitzl is especially interested in the interactions between stress, cognition and emotion. In 1989 she received his doctorate magna cum laude from the Heinrich -Heine University in Dusseldorf. Your dissertation was entitled The neuropeptide substance P: role in mechanisms of reinforcement. Oitzl is a member of the Divisional Board "Earth and Life Sciences" of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, of which it has received an " Aspasia " Research Award in 2008. She was a board member and treasurer of the European Brain and Behaviour Society. According to the Web of Science Oitzl has published over 130 articles in " peer reviewed " scientific journals that are cited more than 5000 times with an h- index of 33