Opportunities to join our team arise on a regular basis. If you would like to become an MD or PhD student or a postdoctoral researcher in our team, and if you like working in an interdisciplinary and international environment, feel free to contact us.

Our research focusses on pain from a neuroscientific and psychological basic science perspective, as well as from a translational and clinical viewpoint. We mainly study pain in healthy volunteers and in various patient populations. Our lab is part of several national and international collaborative research projects (SFB/TRR 289 or SFB 1280) with many doctoral students and other junior scientists. As a junior scientist, you may also participate in structured graduate programs at the University Medicine Essen, such as the BIOME graduate school.