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As a research-oriented neuropsychologist, Nicole von Steinbüchel is director of the Institute of Medical Psychology and Sociology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG). She is one of the leading outcome scientists in the field of health-related outcome assessment, especially in the field of neurological diseases. Lately she was the outcome package leader of the EU-Center-TBI observational study investigating 4500 individuals after TBI. Together with her group they are now developing a pediatric outcome instrument to assess health-related quality of life after TBI internationally (QOLBRI-KIDS/ADO). She is the past president of the Academy of Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology.