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Professor Markus Ploner investigates how the human brain generates the experience of pain. His interdisciplinary research group employs methods such as electroencephalography (EEG) and non-invasive brain stimulation to understand brain processes related to pain in healthy individuals and those with chronic pain. His aim is to develop new approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain. His research is guided by the principles of open, reproducible science and actively involves individuals with chronic pain in the research process. He studied medicine in Cologne and Vienna, receiving his doctorate from the University of Cologne. He began his research career at the University Hospital Düsseldorf, where he completed his specialist training in neurology. In 2007/2008, he conducted research at the University of Oxford as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He works in the Department of Neurology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and was appointed Professor of Human Pain Research in 2014. In 2024, he became the Head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Pain Medicine at TUM University Hospital.