Céline Heinl works at the German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals (Bf3R) at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin that hosts animalstudyregistry.org, a preregistration platform for animal studies aiming to improve quality of preclinical research and animal welfare at the same time. Before joining the Bf3R in 2017, she obtained her PhD in Neuroscience from the Medical University of Vienna and pursued her research on neuronal processing of pain as a postdoc at Heidelberg University.