Ulrike Bingel, a neurologist and Professor of Clinical Neuroscience heads the Interdisciplinary Center for Pain Medicine and Translational Pain Research at University Medicine Essen. Her interdisciplinary research group focuses on the interactions between pain and cognition. Her research addresses the CNS mechanisms underlying nociception, pain, and pain modulation in health and disease using scientific methods that range from pharmacological MRI to clinical studies. Translation to treatment inspires her work on placebo and nocebo effects and their contribution to health and treatment outcomes. As IASP Council, speaker of the collaborative research center “Treatment Expectations“, funded by the German Research Foundation, and Vice Dean for Research at the Medical Faculty, she is dedicated to fostering national and international collaboration, building support structures for the next generation of scientists, and communicating scientific knowledge to patients and the public.