Dr. Miriam Kunz was born near Duesseldorf, Germany in 1977. She studied Psychology in Berlin (1997 – 2002) and received her PhD from the University of Bamberg (2006). She conducted her postdoctoral research at the University of Montreal (Prof. Pierre Rainville) and the University of Bamberg (Prof. Lautenbacher). In 2015 she moved to the Netherlands to start a Tenure Track position at the University of Groningen at the Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine. In 2019 she moved to Augsburg (Germany) to start as a full professor of Medical Psychology and Sociology at the University of Augsburg. She is an expert in the field of facial expression of pain and in the field of pain in dementia, where her research bridges from experimental basic research to clinical applications.