Dr. Else Tolner is Assistant Professor at the Departments of Neurology and Human Genetics of the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), the Netherlands.
She obtained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2005 on neuroplasticity in epilepsy, followed by postdoctoral training in Berlin and Helsinki. She came to the LUMC in 2011 with an LUMC Fellowship, joining the Leiden Headache Group.
Her present research focusses on unraveling attack (including aura) mechanisms and improving treatments for migraine and epilepsy, for which she performs neurophysiological and behavioral studies in transgenic mouse models.
Her parallel involvement in clinical EEG studies and human iPSC-derived ‘brain-on-chip’ models allows bidirectional translation of clinical and preclinical findings.
