Angela V. Dieterich is a Professor of Physiotherapy at Furtwangen University, Germany. She is engaged in the German Pain Society and was a Schlözer Research Fellow at the Pain Clinic of the University Medical Center Göttingen. Angela completed her Ph.D. at the School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science together with the Department of Imaging and Applied Physics at Curtin University, Perth, Australia, in 2013. She has an extensive clinical background. Her research focuses on the assessment of deep muscle activity using ultrasound imaging modalities, with the aim of gaining a better understanding of changes with musculoskeletal pain.