As a full professor in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, she is actively involved in pain management (chair of the pain service), pain research (PI of the “Translational Pain Research” group) and teaching at the University Hospital Muenster, Germany. In particular, her research group is interested in delineating the mechanisms inherent in acute and prolonged pain after surgery (as well as cancer and neuropathic pain and itch). 

Furthermore, she is actively involved in pain registries (for example Pain-Out, www.pain-out.eu) and initiatives related to acute pain (for example the prospect initiative, www.postoppain.org), Cochrane analysis, guideline developments and teaching activities related to pain as well as initiatives aiming to develop new patient-related outcome parameters for certain pain states.