Prof. Ulrike Bingel

Ulrike Bingel
Speaker SFB/TRR 289
Project PI SFB 1280 (A11)
PI Erwin-L.-Hahn Institute
Head of the University Centre for Pain Medicine
Neural mechanisms underlying the processing, perception, and modulation of pain, interactions between pain and cognitive processes, the impact of cognition on treatment outcomes.

Silke Bourdin

Detlef Pucher

Sarah Hoppen

Evgenij Knorr
Team Members

Katharina Schmidt
Postdoctoral Researcher, Scientific Coordinator of SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation, Project PI SFB 1280 (A11)
Pain-cognition interactions, pain-related learning processes, placebo, migraine

Helena Hartmann
Postdoctoral Researcher, Project PI SFB/TRR 289 (SC)
Modulation of pain-related expectations, placebo and nocebo effects, neuroimaging, empathy and prosocial decision-making, open scholarship, science communication, feminist science

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

Belkis Ezgi Arikan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mechanisms underlying placebo/nocebo effects, impact of expectation & learning on treatment, pain perception, mechanisms underlying the perception of own actions, time perception, sense of agency, multisensory processes

Katarina Forkmann
Postdoctoral Researcher
Mechanisms of pain-related learning and extinction in health and chronic pain, mechanisms and modulation of the interruptive function of pain, expectation effects on pain processing and cognitive functioning

Lea Busch
PhD Candidate
Mechanisms of pain-related learning and extinction, and the effect of expectation

Jaspreed Kaur
PhD Candidate
Effects of expectations on the interruptive function of pain, modulation by pain catastrophizing/anxiety, pain-related learning.

Dustin Maser
PhD Candidate
Effects of interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy, interindividual differences, mediating and moderating variables for its effectiveness, neurobiological corrolates of treatment effects

Livia Asan
Clinician Scientist, resident in Neurology
The role of dopamine for placebo analgesia, utilizing placebo and avoiding nocebo in clinical settings, expectation effects in clinical populations

Julian Kleine-Borgmann
Clinician Scientist, specialist in Neurology, Project PI SFB/TRR 289 (A04)
The role of cognition in analgesic treatment outcomes, open-label placebo treatments

Elif Buse Caliskan
Junior Clinician Scientist, resident in Anesthesiology
Role of negative emotions and treatment expectations in nocebo hyperalgesia

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

Rebecca Lutz
PhD Candidate
Placebo/nocebo effects, shared mechanisms between first-hand and empathy for pain, prosocial decision-making, neuroimaging and -modulation

Vivien Janowicz
PhD Candidate
Mechanisms of placebo/nocebo effects, modulatory interactions between cognitive and neurological traits, pain-related patient non-adherence

Julia T. Braunstein
Visiting PhD Candidate (SCAN-Unit, University of Vienna)
Social cognition, empathy, opioids, pain, placebo/nocebo, and prosocial behaviour

Jonas Zaman
Visiting professor (UHasselt) and senior postdoctoral research fellow (FWO / KU Leuven)
Biological, social and psychological factors of pain perception and pain experience

Katja Wiech
Professor, Project PI SFB/TRR 289 (A19)
Neurobiological mechanisms underlying pain-related learning and the influence of beliefs on pain perception

Frederik Schlitt
Associated Postdoc in Dagmar Timmann-Braun's lab
Mechanisms of emotional learning and the influence of stress in healthy and chronic back pain patients
Translational Pain Research Unit Associates

Sigrid Elsenbruch
Project leader of 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

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

Jana Aulenkamp
Clinician Scientist, Anesthesiologist
Perioperative pain medicine with a focus on acute and chronic (postoperative and posttraumatic) pain

Robert Pawlik
Postdoctoral Researcher
Learning and memory processes in the context of pain, influence of inflammation on learning and memory processes, placebo- and nocebo effects in the context of pain

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
