Daniela Schiller, PhD

Professor, Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine

Daniela Schiller, PhD

Information

Dr. Daniela Schiller is a Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where she directs the affective neuroscience laboratory. Her research is focused on the neural mechanisms of emotional learning and memory and social cognition.

Dr. Schiller’s work has been published in numerous scholarly journals, including Nature, Neuron and Nature Neuroscience. Schiller has been the recipient of several awards, including the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, and the Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in the Neurosciences for her research on how to rewire the brain to eradicate fear as a response to memory.

Notable Published Works

Disrupted computations of social control in individuals with obsessive-compulsive and misophonia symptoms [June 2022]

Additional Resource

Schiller Lab at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai