Prof. Ulrike Bingel
Ulrike Bingel
Silke Bourdin
Detlef Pucher
Sarah Hoppen
Evgenij Knorr
Team Members
Katharina Schmidt
Postdoctoral Researcher, Scientific Coordinator of SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation
Pain-cognition interactions, pain-related learning processes, placebo, migraine
Angelika Kunkel
Postdoctoral Researcher
Neuronal and psychological mechanisms of pain perception and pain processing, the role of healthy subjects’ and chronic pain patients’ expectations in the modulation of pain
Julian Kleine-Borgmann
The role of cognition in analgesic treatment outcomes, open-label placebo treatments
Helena Hartmann
Cognitive and affective modulation of pain-related expectations, placebo and nocebo effects, neuroimaging and -modulation, shared mechanisms between first-hand and empathy for pain, prosocial decision-making, open scholarship, science communication
Bálint Kincses
Postdoctoral Researcher
Neurobiological mechanism of pain processing, development and application of new methods to investigate rest and task functional MRIs in relation to the cognitive aspects of pain such as learning and expectation
Diana Müßgens
Postdoctoral Researcher
Neural mechanisms of pain processing, interactions between somatosensory and motor processes in the context of pain, the role of psycho-social factors in the development, maintenance, and treatment of chronic pain
Livia Asan
The role of dopamine for placebo analgesia, utilizing placebo and avoiding nocebo in clinical settings, expectation effects in clinical populations
Lea Busch
PhD Candidate
Mechanisms of pain-related learning and extinction, and the effect of expectation
Frederik Schlitt
PhD Candidate
Mechanisms of emotional learning and the influence of stress in healthy and chronic back pain patients
Jaspreed Kaur
PhD Candidate
Effects of expectation on the interruptive function of pain and its modulation by pain catastrophizing and pain anxiety. Mechanisms of pain-related learning.
Dustin Maser
The effects of interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy. Interindividual differences as well as other mediating and moderating variables for its effectivenss. The neurobiological corrolates of treatment effects.
Jialin Li
PhD Candidate (affiliated to the Max Planck School of Cognition)
Placebo/nocebo effects, appetitive/aversive learning, impact of expectation & learning on treatment, translational research on individual prediction of psychiatric disorders
Elif Buse Caliskan
Resident in Neurology
Role of negative emotions and treatment expectations in nocebo hyperalgesia
Lisa C. Burgard née Schurer
Biological, social and psychological factors of pain perception and pain experience
Katarina Forkmann
Scientific Associate (former Postdoc), currently employed at aidhere
Mechanisms of pain-related learning and extinction in health and chronic pain, mechanisms and modulation of the interruptive function of pain in health and chronic pain, expectation effects on pain processing and cognitive functioning
Matthias Zunhammer
Scientific Associate and Team Analyst (former Postdoc), currently employed at Takeda Oncology Germany
Pain, placebo analgesia, neuroimaging of pain
Translational Pain Research Unit Associates
Sigrid Elsenbruch
Project leader project A04, SFB/TRR 289, Head of the Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
Behavioural and neural mechanisms of acute and chronic visceral pain, placebo and nocebo mechanisms in the context of the gut-brain axis, learning and extinction of pain-related fear, effects of stress and affective symptoms on symptom perception across pain modalities
Rossitza Draganova
Postdoctoral Researcher
Electrophysiology methods (EGG, ECG and EEG) in learning, plasticity and placebo/nocebo pain related paradigms. Neuroimaging (functional and structural MRI) of treatment expectation and predictive models in respect of the gut-brain axis. Software development - signal processing and statistical methods in neuroscience
Adriane Icenhour
Postdoctoral Researcher
CNS mechanisms involved in gut-brain communication, the impact of psychological factors such as stress, fear, and expectations on visceral pain as a cardinal symptom of disturbances along the gut-brain axis such as IBS
Laura Ricarda Lanters née Koenen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying acute and chronic pain, especially visceral pain; learning and extinction of pain-related fear across distinct pain modalities; translational perspective on placebo/nocebo effects
Jana Aulenkamp
Anesthesiologist at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine since 07/2020 and at the TPRU since 07/2020.
Perioperative pain medicine with a focus on acute and chronic (postoperative and posttraumatic) pain
