Personal Chair: Alison Douglas

Alison Douglas has been made a Personal Chair.

Dr Douglas graduated with a BSc (Hons) and a PhD in Physiology at the Queen’s University of Belfast.

She moved to the University of Edinburgh for her Postdoctoral fellowships and was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Physiology in 1994. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2003 and Reader in 2008 in the Centre for Integrative Physiology.

Her research interests include the role of the maternal brain in stress-induced pregnancy complications and control of oxytocin neurones in reproductive and social behaviours.

Dr Douglas was recently part of the EU Network of Excellence on Embryo Implantation Control, and collaborates widely with colleagues in Edinburgh and around the UK and Europe.

She has contributed substantially over the past 10 years to biomedical teaching and administration of undergraduate courses at all levels, including chairing committees and exam boards.

She is an elected Fellow of the Society of Biology, is Chair of the Steering Committee of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology and is a member of the International Neuroendocrine Federation Council.

She is also an Associate Editor for the journals “Neuroendocrinology” and “Reproduction, Fertility and Development”.