Dr. Helena Hartmann
Dr. Helena Hartmann is currently a Postdoc at the University Hospital Essen, working on the neural mechanisms underlying placebo and nocebo effects as well as expectations in pain. She studied Psychology with a focus in Biological and Clinical Psychology and also completed her PhD at the University of Vienna. She was also a visiting researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam for a year. In her research, she is interested in factors that influence how we perceive pain in ourselves and in other people, and what happens in the brain during these processes. Since the start of her PhD, she enthusiastically engages in and teaches science communication. Her way of communicating ranges from videos and podcasts over written magazine articles in In-Mind and Gehirn & Geist to teaching the next generation of science communicators. She additionally leads her own scicomm project, where she explains scientific studies using fictional short stories (
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