Professor David Bennett (MB PhD), Professor of neurology and neurobiology at the University of Oxford and consultant neurologist at Oxford University Hospitals in the UK. He is head of the Division of Clinical Neurology at the University of Oxford and an Honorary Skou Professor.

His research focus is to understand the pathogenesis of neural injury and neuropathic pain and ultimately improve the clinical management of this debilitating condition. He takes a translational approach ranging from cell-based models to human psychophysics and clinical cohorts. He administers a specialist neuropathic pain clinic based at Oxford University hospitals.

He has led the identification of novel clinical neuropathies and inherited pain channelopathies. He leads major international and national consortia including DOLORisk and PAINSTORM investigating risk factors and determinants of neuropathic pain. He received the PD Wall medal from the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 2016 and became an honorary Skou professor of Aarhus University in 2019. He was appointed to Fellowship if the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2020 for excellence in pain research.

Professor Dr. Ulrike Bingel is a professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Medicine, Universität Duisburg-Essen. She is also director at the Interdisciplinary Center for Pain Medicine and Translational Pain Research and she is the spokesperson for the Center of Excellence on Treatment Expectations. Furthermore, she is a director at the Advanced Clinician Scientist Program UMEA2.

She is a leading expert in the field of placebo and nocebo mechanisms, and she has a longstanding expertise in investigating the CNS mechanisms underlying nociception, pain, and pain modulation in health and disease. Her research focuses on the interaction between pain and cognitive processes and the impact of cognition on treatment outcomes. In her research, she uses behavioral paradigms, pharmacological modulations, as well as functional and structural brain imaging.

Professor Dr. Ulrike Bingel´s research group is interdisciplinary and consists of neurologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, biologists, and computer scientists. They are based at the Department of Neurology at the University Medicine Essen.

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