**About the Editors**

#### **Jo Nijs**

Jo Nijs is professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium), physiotherapist/manual therapist at the University Hospital Brussels, holder of a Chair on oncological physiotherapy funded by the Berekuyl Academy, the Netherlands, and part of the Visiting Professor program of the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Jo runs the Pain in Motion international research group. The primary aim of his research is improving care for patients with chronic pain. At the age of 45, he has (co-)authored 282 peer reviewed publications (including papers in high impact journals such as The Lancet, JAMA Neurology and The Lancet Rheumatology), obtained €12 million grant income, supervised 21 PhD projects to completion and served >300 times as an invited speaker at national and international meetings in 25 countries (including 36 keynotes). He trained >3k clinicians in 100 courses held in 12 countries spread over 4 continents. His work has been cited >9k times (h-index: 55), with 26 citations per article (ISI Web of Knowledge). Jo is ranked 2nd in the world among chronic pain researchers (1st in Europe), received the 2017 Excellence in Research Award from the JOSPT (USA), and the 2020 Francqui Collen Chair awarded by the University of Hasselt, Belgium.

#### **Felipe J J Reis**

Felipe Reis is Professor at the Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, visiting researcher at McGill University and visiting professor at Pain in Motion Research Group (PAIN), Department of Physiotherapy, Human Physiology and Anatomy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. I earned my PhD degree in Medical Sciences (2012) at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. My research interests are: the integration of pain, emotion and cognition, and pain education. I serve as the chair of the IASP Special Interest Group Pain, Mind and Movement. Currently, I am responsible for coordinating an international research group (Pesquisa em Dor). In the last years, this group provided the integration of researchers from several countries and has developed pain education resources for adults and children in different languages.
