Karin Jensen, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Group Leader
My research interests and expertise revolve around brain mechanisms involved in pain control. In my research group, we use brain imaging and experimental pain testing to explore the human perception of pain, long-term pain and placebo effects.
Contact: karin.jensen (at) ki.se
Maria Lalouni, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Docent
Team Leader
My main research interests are the psychological and social contributions to pain in both adults and children. I am particularly interested in fear of pain, the behavioral responses to pain and the interaction between the patient and his or her context. I am the Team Leader of the Child Pain Team, a specialized research team within the overall research group.
Contact: maria.lalouni (at) ki.se
Sebastian Blomé
PhD student
I have a background in biomedicine and joined the lab in 2021. I am interested in long-term pain and its relationship to brain function and structure.
Contact: sebastian.blome (at) ki.se
Viktor Vadenmark Lundqvist
PhD student
I am part of the Child Pain Team, leading the data collection of the Brain-Gut project in children.
Contact: viktor.vadenmark.lundqvist (at) ki.se
Julie Klinke
PhD Student
Recent neuroscience graduate from the University of Amsterdam with a special interest in the biological and psychological mechanisms that are involved in long-term pain. I've studied the presentation of rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia pain at the University of Oxford, the use of neuroimaging techniques to explore brain functional changes and their relationship to neuroinflammation in patients with knee osteoarthritis at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and am excited to develop my knowledge of pain and neuroimaging further in the Jensen Lab.
I am particularly interested in research that will help illuminate the mechanisms of and potential treatment targets for long-term pain, as well as research that will contribute to tangible improvements in the lived experience of people with pain disorders.
Education
MSc (Research) Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Amsterdam (2024)
Research Internship: Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (2023)
Research Internship: University of Oxford (2022)
BSc Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark (2021)
Research Internship: Genting TauRx Diagnostics Centre (2020)
Contact: julie.klinke (at) ki.se
William Hedley Thompson, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Docent, Gothenburg University
Affiliated Researcher at KI
My research is about how the brain can flexibly process different information. My focus is on the brain’s functional networks and how they can change their activity over time. This involves both developing methods, testing their robustness, creating tools for researchers, and applying all this to reveal temporal network properties of the brain. I also have an interest for meta-scientific questions about open science and communication.
Contact: william.thompson (at) ki.se
Anna Andreasson, Ph.D.
Docent, Stockholm University
Guest Professor, Linköping University
Affliated Researcher at KI
My main research interests are psychoneuroimmunological mechanisms behind persistent symptoms such as fatigue and pain. As a clinical epidemiologist, I work across a wide range of study designs; from small experimental studies to clinical populations and large register-based studies encompassing much of the Swedish population. My work aims to inform more effective, individualized interventions in persistent symptoms.
Contact: anna.andreasson (at) su.se
Valentina Molinari
MD Student, Intern
I am a sixth-year medical student at the University of Bologna with a strong interest in neuroscience. I am especially fascinated by the intersection of research and clinical practice as a means to investigate the neural mechanisms of mental and neurological disorders, and to contribute to the improvement of patients' treatment. My current work as an intern in Karin Jensen's group focuses on better understanding of chronic nociplastic pain conditions.
Contact: valentina.molinari (at) ki.se
Jenny Rickardsson, Ph.D.
Research Specialist
My research interests are focused on treatment and processes related to functioning with chronic pain. I am particularly interested in contextual behavioral learning theory and it's implications for more effective treatments for chronic pain, better understanding of behavioral patterns and strive to improve how we understand suffering and pain in theory and practice.
Contact: jenny.rickardsson (at) ki.se
Filip Gedin, Ph.D.
Affiliated Researcher
I am a health economist with expertise in in registry- and survey-based research in chronic pain populations. I will work as a project coordinator for PrePain, in collaboration with the unit for Insurance Medicine at KI. The outcomes from registry queries will provide PrePain with information about pain incidence and disability.
Contact: filip.gedin (at) ki.se
Martin Jonsjö, Ph.D.
Affiliated Researcher
My main research interests include behavior medicine treatment development for pediatric chronic pain, and the interactions between behavioral learning processes, the brain and the immune system in such conditions. I am particularly interested in placebo and nocebo mechanisms from a contextual behavioral learning theory perspective, and how these mechanisms can be better understood, in order to for example aid the development of more effective treatments.
Contact: martin.jonsjo (at) ki.se
Previous Lab Members
Livia Rühr
Erasmus student 2023
Moa Pontén
Previous PhD student - Graduated September 2022
Jens Fust
Previous PhD student - Graduated April 2022
Granit Kastrati
Previous PhD student - Graduated May 2022
Annelie Rosén
Previous PhD Student - Graduated November 2016
Alexander Stridh
MD student
Maria Hedman-Lagerlöf, Ph.D.
Postdoc
Clinical Psychologist
Amanda Ekdahl
MD student