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
Pain-cognition interactions, pain-related learning processes, placebo, migraine
Helena Hartmann
Postdoctoral Researcher, Public Outreach Manager
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
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
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, expectation effects on pain processing and cognitive functioning
Julian Kleine-Borgmann
Clinician Scientist, specialist in Neurology
The role of cognition in analgesic treatment outcomes, open-label placebo treatments
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
Elif Buse Caliskan
Junior Clinician Scientist, resident in Neurology
Role of negative emotions and treatment expectations in nocebo hyperalgesia
Frederik Schlitt
PhD Candidate, now Postdoc in Dagmar Timmann-Braun's lab
Mechanisms of emotional learning and the influence of stress in healthy and chronic back pain patients
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
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
Jonas Zaman
Visiting professor (UHasselt) and senior postdoctoral research fellow (FWO / KU Leuven)
Biological, social and psychological factors of pain perception and pain experience
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
