I’m convinced of the fruitfulness of taking a holistic perspective that acknowledges the tight interrelations between physiological and psychosocial processes involved in the development and maintenance of troublesome conditions such as chronic pain or psychosomatic disorders.

As a postdoctoral research fellow in Prof. Dr. Glombiewski’s Pain & Psychotherapy Research Lab I’m investigating neuro-behavioral mechanisms of placebo and nocebo responses. I also teach statistics and methodology for bachelor's and master's students in psychology.

I did my PhD thesis (March 2018) in the lab of Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h. c. Herta Flor (Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience) investigating predisposing and maintaining factors of phantom limb pain following amputation. I hold a Masters’ degree in Biology with a main emphasis on neurobiology and behaviour.

Work experience 

Academic education

Scholarships, certificates & awards

• Starting Fund (4.500 €) for a German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant Application (Project Title: „Interoception as a predictor of placebo hypoalgesia“ (02/2021)
• Teaching award (600 €): University of Koblenz-Landau, Department of Psychology (fall: 2018/2019)
• Travel scholarship (450 €): University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau: participation at the 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (09/2018)
• Certificate: „Quantitative Sensory Testing" according to the German Research Network on Neuropathic Pain (DFNS), Department of Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University (Germany) (02/2016)
• Open Access Publishing Fund (1.200 €) of the University of Heidelberg (05/2015) for the publication: Milde et al. (2015): Do mirror glasses have the same effect on brain activity as a mirror box? Evidence from a functional magnetic resonance imaging study with healthy subjects. PLoS One. 27: 10(5). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone0127697.
• PhD Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG – Collaborative Research Center: 636: „Learning, memory and brain plasticity“) (07/2012)
• Student Scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes e. V. (10/2008) 

Memberships 

Selected conferences

• European Pain School (2018): „Pain: from Fetus to Old Age”; Siena, Italy (https://eps2018.azuleon.org/)
• 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (2018); Rome, Italy (https://www.icsc- rome.org/)
• International Pain Summer School (2016): „Neural Circuits of Pain and their Reorganisation in Chronic Pain”; Prien at the Chiemsee, Germany (presentation and debate) (http://www.internationalpainschool.de/2016.html)
• Marsilius Summer Academy: „Anthropology of Perception”: Natural sciences and humanities in conversation (2005); Heidelberg, Germany (book chapter and presentation)
• German Pain Congress (2015): „Schmerz im Leben – Schmerz (Er)Leben“; Mannheim, Germany (presentation and scientific poster)
• European Pain Congress EFIC (2013): „Pain in Europe VIII“; Florence, Italy (presentation and scientific poster)

for selected publications

Google scholar:

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=0eDI7soAAAAJ&hl=de&authuser=1

Research gate:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher-Milde

Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/neutrophine.bsky.social

Aktuelle Links zu Präregistrierungen:

• Smart Emotions
• The underestimated role of interoception in explaining differences in
  placebohypoalgesia in low and high confidence settings
• The role of pain interoception in placebo hypoalgesia

• Psychobiology of Chronic Pain
• Psychopharmacology & Placebomechanisms
• Statistics & Machine Learning
• Peripheral Physiology