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]