University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, B.A., 1988, Psychology
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Ph.D., 1993, Psychology

Part-time Instructor of Psychology, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 1991-1992
Part-time Assistant Professor of Psychology, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 1994-1995
Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1994-1995
Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins Univ School of Med, Baltimore, MD, November 1995- June 1997
Instructor of Behavioral Biology, Johns Hopkins Univ School of Med, Baltimore, MD, July 1997-June 1998
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Biology, Johns Hopkins Univ School of Med, Baltimore, MD, July 1998- April 2005
Associate Professor of Behavioral Biology, Johns Hopkins Univ School of Med, Baltimore, MD, May 2005- present

Psychon Travel Award, 1989
National Institute on Drug Abuse Director's Travel Award, June 1997
Young Investigator's Paper, meeting of Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, Nashville, June 1997
National Institute on Drug Abuse Travel Award, July 1997
Conference on Problems of Drug Dependence Travel Award 1998

Multivariate Behavioral Research
Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Psychopharmacology
Ethel F. Donahue Women's Health Investigator Program at Yale

Pinney Associates, Bethesda MD, 1997
Synthelabo Research, Inc. Secaucus, NJ, 1999

H.H. Swanson, E.J. Houtsmuller, R. Diaz, A.L. Louwerse and N.E. van de Poll. The preoptic area and sexual differentiation. In: Hormones, Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates 1. Sexual differentiation, neuroanatomical aspects, neurotransmitters and neuropeptides. Liege, Belgium, 1990. Ed. J. Balthazart. p.30-40.

T. Brand, E.J. Houtsmuller and A.K. Slob. Androgens and the propensity for adult mounting behavior in the female Wistar rat. In: Hormones, Brain and Behavior in Vertebrates 1. Sexual differentiation, neuroanatomical aspects, neurotransmitters and neuropeptides. Liege, Belgium, 1990. Ed. J. Balthazart. p.15-29.

E.J. Houtsmuller and A.K. Slob. Masculinization and defeminization of female rats by males located caudally in the uterus. Physiology and Behavior, 48:555-560;1990.

T. Brand, E.J. Houtsmuller and A.K. Slob. Neonatal programming of adult partner preference, sexual behavior and SDN-POA in male rats. In: The development of sex differences and similarities in behavior. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1993. Eds. Haug, Whalen, Aron and Olsen. p 33-49.

E.J. Houtsmuller, T. Brand, F.H. de Jonge, R. Joosten, N.E. van de Poll and A.K. Slob. SDN-POA volume, partner preference and sexual behavior of male rats affected by perinatal ATD treatment. Physiology and Behavior, 56(3):535-542;1994.

E.J. Houtsmuller, J. Juranek, C. Gebauer, A.K. Slob and D.L. Rowland. Males located caudally in the uterus affect sexual behavior of male rats in adulthood. Behavioral Brain Research, 62:119-125;1994.

E.J. Houtsmuller, F. de Jong, D.L. Rowland and A.K. Slob. Plasma testosterone levels in fetal rats and their mothers on day 19 of pregnancy. Physiology and Behavior, 57(3):495-499;1995.

D.F. Swaab, A.K. Slob, E.J. Houtsmuller, T. Brand and J.N. Zhou. Increased number of vasopressin neurons in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of 'bisexual' adult male rats: following perinatal treatment with the aromatase blocker ATD. Brain Research. Developmental Brain Research 85(2): 273-279;1995.

D.L. Rowland, E.J. Houtsmuller, A.K. Slob and S.E. Cooper. The study of ejaculatory response in men in the psychophysiological laboratory. Journal of Sex Research, 34:161-166, 1997.

D.L. Rowland, S.E. Cooper and E.J. Houtsmuller. Seksuele funktie en emotie in mannen. Tijdschrift voor Seksuologie, 20, 303-315, 1997.

E.J. Houtsmuller, J. Thornton, A.K. Slob and D.L. Rowland. Using a multivariate approach to determine the influence of male fetuses on the genital morphology of neonatal female rats. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 32:77-94, 1997.

D.L. Rowland and E.J. Houtsmuller. 8-OH-DPAT interacts with testosterone and sexual experience to affect ejaculatory response. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 60(1):143-149, 1998.

E.J. Houtsmuller, S.L. Walsh, K.J. Schuh, R.E. Johnson, M.L. Stitzer and G.E. Bigelow. Dose response analysis of opioid cross-tolerance and withdrawal suppression during LAAM maintenance. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 285:387-396, 1998.

E.J. Houtsmuller and M.L. Stitzer. Manipulation of cigarette craving through rapid smoking: Efficacy and effects on smoking behavior. Psychopharmacology, 142: 149-157, 1999.

D.L. Rowland, A. Kaariainen and E.J. Houtsmuller. Psychophysiological interactions: a laboratory excercise for introductory psychology. In press, Teaching of Psychology, 2000.

M. Robinson, E.J. Houtsmuller, E.T. Moolchan and W.B. Pickworth. Placebo cigarettes in smoking research. In press, Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2000.

E-mail contact: ehoutsm@jhmi.edu