Amsterdam UMC, Dept of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience & Amsterdam Public Health, University of Amsterdam, & ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, Diemen, The Netherlands.
Chair: ‘Neurobiological mechanisms of prevention and treatment in trauma and PTSD’
Prof. Dr. Miranda Olff, is professor in the field of psychotrauma. Her research focuses on transdiagnostic responses to traumatic events, and the prevention and treatment of adverse consequences, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), around the world.
Miranda Olff is leading the Centre for Psychological Trauma at the department of Psychiatry at the Amsterdam UMC (AMC) of the University of Amsterdam and is Director of Research at the ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre (ARQ). Miranda Olff is chair of the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress, a collaborative of traumatic stress societies who joined forces to tackle traumatic stress topics of global importance.
She has been trained in Corporate Governance and has several committee/advisory board positions (e.g. MH17 disaster foundation).
Miranda Olff is founding Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT), an Open Access journal owned by the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), launched when she was president of ESTSS. She also is a past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).
Publications can be found here: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1016-9515