Elly Hol#
| Membership Number: | 4936 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ellyhollab.eu |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5604-2603 |
| Twitter: | @elly_hol |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellyhol/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 Director Education Division Brain (UMC Utrecht) & Director of the Master’s program Neuroscience & Cognition and the PhD program Clinical & Experimental Neuroscience of the Utrecht University Graduate School of Life Sciences
- 2015 Full professor of “Glia biology of brain diseases”, Faculty of Medicine, Utrecht University
- 2013 Principal Investigator UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht
- 2011 Special professor of "Biology of Glia and Neural stem cells", University of Amsterdam
- 2003 - 2013 Group leader Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1997 - 2003 post-doc/researchers at Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 1995 - 1996 post-doc Max-Planck-Institute for for Psychiatry, department of Neuromorphology Planegg-Martinsried, Germany.
- 1990 - 1994 PhD student at the Research Laboratory of Neurology, Rudolf Magnus Institute for Neurosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Fields of Scholarship
- Intermediate filament cytoskeleton
- Reactive gliosis and effect on cognition
- Glia biology in relaton to brain diseases
- Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and glioma
- Astrocytes and microglia
- Adult neurogenesis in brain disease
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Plenary lecture at XIV European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease
- Nominated by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to join AcademiaNet – Expert Database for Outstanding Female Scientists and Scholars (2012). http://www.academia-net.org/alias/Profil/Prof-Dr-E-M-Hol/1163542
- 2009 VICI grant - Innovational Research Incentives Scheme NWO the Netherlands
- 2000 - 2003 Dutch Brain Foundation Fellowship
- 1995 - 1996 Max Planck Fellowship
