Position:
Professor for Clinical Psychology
Department:
Department of Experimental Psychology
Organization:
Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf
Country:
Germany
Susanne Becker
PhD
I am a Professor of Clinial Psychology at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf in Germany. In addition, I am heading a research group at the Balgrist University Hosptial of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. My background is in psychology and cognitive neurosciences. I earned my PhD at the University of Mannheim, Germany, after which I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Before becoming a research group leader, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany. I have received several awards and prizes for my work and I am a member of the ASP Fellowships, Grants, and Awards committee and EFIC Working Group for Translational Research. My research focuses on the psychobiological mechanisms of the intersections of pain and reward processing in healthy and chronic pain states.