Meet the Team
PAINLESS comprises experienced and highly skilled professionals from all across Europe. The team includes experts in chronic pain, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, medical oncology, palliative care, and neuromodulation, among many other research disciplines. Moreover, PAINLESS benefits hugely from partnerships with innovative software specialists and is supported by European organisations engaged in research dissemination, patient advocacy, and public health promotion.
María Teresa Carrillo de la Peña
Principal investigator
The Brain and Pain team
Noelia Samartin Veiga
Data coordinator: Collection, processing, & management
The Brain and Pain team
Dolores Rodríguez Salgado
Advisor for ethics & gender issues
The Brain and Pain team
Antonio Gil Ugidos
PhD student & project collaborator
The Brain and Pain team
Diego Pinal Fernández
Associate Researcher
The Brain and Pain Team
Belén Fernández Castro
Supporting the analysis of health economics data
IDEGA: Instituto de Estudos e Desenvolvemento de Galicia
Dolores Riveiro García
Supporting the analysis of health economics data
IDEGA: Instituto de Estudos e Desenvolvemento de Galicia
Elena María Brozos Vázquez
Clinician, participant recruiter & work package 2 leader
Lara Rubal Otero
Associate researcher and WP2 coordinator; data collection, analysis and management.
Researcher engaged in project set-up, the development of protocol evaluations, conducting face-to-face assessments of patients, and subsequent data analysis
Eva María Ben Garea
Managing economic and administrative tasks
Mónica Mayo Moldes
Supporting participant recruitment
Isaura Fernández Pérez
Supporting participant recruitment
Ana Muñoz
Managing economic and administrative tasks
Andrea Antal
Leading Work Package 3: Supervising the PAINLESS project at UMG
Dr.-Ing. Mehmet Eylem
Work Package 3: Coordinating efforts to use neuromodulation technology as an intervention for PAINLESS
Ivan Chakalov
Work Package 3: Assisting research efforts within PAINLESS and providing medical expertise
Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Selecting bed assessment protocol in Work Package 1
Carsten Dahl Mørch
Recruiting participants for Work Package 1
Alberto González Villar
External advisor
Rui Medeiros
Principal investigator, work package 1 leader
Marina Borges
Supporting project coordination and administration
Ana Luisa Teixeira
Supporting resource planning for work package 1
Carina Fernandes
Supervising data collection, processing and management for work package 1; Scientific dissemination
Otília Romano
Claudia Vieira
Yelena Granovsky
Supervising data collection and internal analyses for work packages 2 & 3
Rabab Zubiedat
Supporting coordination of tasks
Sandra Martins Pereira
External Ethics Advisor
Daniela Mosoiu
Recruiting participants for work packages 2 & 3; Work package 7 leader
Sorina Hasu
Supporting work packages 2, 3 and 7
Flavia Hurducas
Supporting work packages 2, 3, and 7
Dana Lucia Stănculeanu
Pilot Implementation in Romania
Elena Dumitrescu
Pilot implementation in Romania
Adelina Silvana Gheorghe
Pilot implementation in Romania
Cathy Payne
Leader of work package 6: Communication and dissemination
Fódhla Ní Chéileachair
Work package 6: Communication and dissemination
Patricia White
Work package 6: Communication and dissemination
Guillermo Palacios
Web Specialist Content
Ane de las Heras Martin
Communications Officer
Klaus Schelhorn
Alexander Hunold
Petra Maresova
Coordinating work package 5
Dana Oniga
Coordinating work package 4
André Dufour
Managing clinical protocol and CPM stimulator for work package 1
Helena Ros
Stakeholder communication for work package 6
Sebastian Herberger
Application support and development for work package 1
Laura Hainke
Application support and development for work package 1
Alex Platt
Claudia Gamondi
L’istituto IOSI-EOC: Principal investigator, clinician and participant recruiter for work package 2 and 3
Maria Montilla
Area Formazione Accademica, Ricerca e Innovazione (AFRI): Institutional liaison, coordination and administration support
