The CINN Pain Lab
Dr Wiebke Gandhi
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Reading
Wiebke is interested in coping with acute and chronic pain, including maladaptive strategies like learned helplessness. In her current project, she is investigating neural and behavioural correlates of the learning processes that take place when individuals get to realize that they can’t control pain.
Dr Katherine Finlay
Associate Professor
University of Reading
Katherine is an Associate Professor in Psychology and Chartered Health Psychologist with a special interest in developing psychological and/or behaviour change interventions to manage chronic health conditions. Katherine’s research work focuses on clinical populations living with long-term chronic health conditions, including chronic pain, spinal cord injury and recurrent urinary tract infection. Katherine is regularly employed in Health Psychology consultancy, including delivering training sessions on behaviour change and Motivational Interviewing in the public and private sectors.
Dr Tim Salomons
Assistant Professor
Queens University
Dr Tim Salomons is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queens University. Tim was previously my PhD supervisor at Reading, is the founder of the CINN Pain lab and is still a core element of the driving force behind our work today. Tim’s research aims to understand how the brain and body interact to create the experience of pain, and why some people might be prone to develop pain while others are relatively resilient. Tim is especially interested in the biological mechanisms that underlie cognitive and affective responses to pain and how this knowledge might help us treat pain.
Dr Carien van Reekum
Professor
University of Reading
Dr Carien van Reekum is a Professor at the University of Reading and affiliated with the Centre of Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics. Carien’s research interests are focused on affective neuroscience and aims to better understand the brain mechanisms involved in emotion elicitation and adaptive regulation of emotion, how emotion and emotion regulation change across the lifespan and how changes in the brain with advancing age may impact emotion reactivity and regulation. Carien also studies affect-cognition interaction and how emotion influences attention and subsequent processing of information, and how attentional focus influences emotion. Carien is the Director of the Brain Emotion and Cognition (BEC) lab, she locally manages ongoing research in the CINN pain lab and is crucial to the mentoring and development of PhDs and early career researchers in the lab.
Greig Adams
Graduate Student
University of Reading
Greig was a PhD student within the CINN Pain lab, and is jointly hired as a research assistant on a project funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). Greig’s interests are on the experimental basis of psychological interventions on pain, and examining individual differences underlying the mechanisms of central sensitisation and psychological habituation to pain.
Norma Rosenek
Graduate Student
University of Reading
Norma completed her PhD with us in 2022, and is now completing her clinical doctorate in Southampton. Norma’s PhD was focused on the shared and unique characteristics of painful and emotional experiences using behavioural, psychophysiological and neuroimaging techniques.