Resident of Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Hamburg
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Systems Neuroscience, University of Hamburg
Visiting postdoctoral research Fellow, Pain Group, FMRIB, University of Oxford
Education
Study of Medicine, University of Essen (1994-2000) and Queen Square Hospital, London (2000)
Residency training Program of Neurology, University of Hamburg (2001-1008)
Board Qualification Neurology (2008)
Honours
The Pain Research EFIC Grünenthal Grant ("Europäischer Schmerzpreis") 2006 for the project "Imaging how pain interferes with information processing in other modalities", funded with 20,000 €
MSD research award for neurology for the project "Diffusion tensor imaging of the brainstem in migraine patients", funded with 10,000 €
Current funding
Kognitive Modulation der Schmerzverarbeitung und Placebowirksamkeit untersucht mit fMRT", joined project with C. Büchel und R. Klinger funded by DFG. Total amount 70,000 €, funding period 2005-2007.
"Untersuchung der Mechanismen der Schmerzhabituation bei gesunden Probanden mittels funktioneller Kernspintomographie und neuropharmakologischer Intervention". FFM (local university funding). Total amount: 50,000 €, funding period 2007-2008.
DMKG research grant for the project "structural imaging of idiopathic headpain syndromes". Funding amount: 12,500 €, funding period 2008.
"Freies Forschungsjahr für exzellente Nachwuchswissenschaftler" (local university funding), Funding amount 65,000 €, funding period 2008-2009
BMBF independent research group "neurobiology of pain cognition interactions", Total funding 1.3 Mio €, funding period 2009-2014
