Pınar Öz was graduated from Molecular Biology and Genetics, Boğaziçi University in 2006. She got her PhD from International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences, Göttingen, Germany in 2011. Field of her doctoral study was theoretical neurobiophysics. After a short post-doc period in Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany, she went back to Boğaziçi University and was a post-doc in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering between 2012-2014. Currently, she is a full-time faculty member in Molecular Biology and Genetics, Üsküdar University. Her research focuses on the functional neurodevelopment of the mammalian brain, with a special interest in memory network dysfunction in schizophrenia.
