Prof. Daniela Ostatníková, MD, PhD

After graduating from general medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University in Bratislava, she served as medical doctor at the Department of internal Medicine. She completed her postgraduate education at the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, where she is currently a Professor of normal and pathological physiology and a guarantor of the doctoral study program “Medical Neurosciences”. Her main topics of interest has been the effects of sex steroids on cognitive function and the involvement of hormones in the etiology of autism. She completed several residencies at foreign universities, thanks to the Fulbright Foundation study stay at the University of Michigan (2004), thanks to the Templeton Scholarship study stay at the University of Iowa (2008). She has been a visiting professor at Nova Southeastern University, Florida. She initiated the cooperation with prof. Baron-Cohen at the Autism Research Center at the University of Cambridge, developed by her students. She is the founder of Academic Research Center for Autism.