Markus Ploner

Markus Ploner is a Professor of Human Pain Research at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Pain Medicine of the TUM University Hospital. He studied Medicine in Cologne and Vienna, trained as a neurologist at Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf, and was a research fellow at the University of Oxford. Motivated by his clinical experience, he aims to understand how the brain translates threat into pain, and what goes wrong in this process when patients experience ongoing pain without appropriate threat. He also investigates how non-invasive neuromodulation approaches can modulate this process.