| Melly Oitzl | |
| Birth Place: | Lind/Arnoldstein |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Fields: | Behavioural neuroscience |
| Education: | University of Düsseldorf |
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| Thesis Year: | 1989 |
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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]