Tor Wager, PhD, the Diana L. Taylor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, served as an Assistant (2004-2008) and Associate Professor (2009) at Columbia University, and as Associate (2010-2014) and Full Professor (2014-2019) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Since 2004, he has directed the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, devoted to work on the neurophysiology of affective processes—pain, emotion, stress and empathy—and how they are shaped by cognitive and social influences. Professor Wager and his lab are also dedicated to developing analysis methods for functional neuro-imaging and sharing ideas, tools and scientific data with the scientific community and public.