Barbara Namer

Barbara Namer is an Adjunct Professor at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and leads the IZKF-funded "Neuroscience: translational pain research" group at RWTH Aachen University Hospital. Her career spans 20+ years in neurophysiological pain research with clinical translations.

• Doctor of Medicine (2000-2004), Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Venia Legendi (Habilitation) in Physiology (2010)
• Adjunct Professor title (2018)

Her research focuses on nociceptor mechanisms in diabetic neuropathy, migraine pathophysiology, and TRPA1 channel dynamics. Computational modeling and human microneurography techniques are central to her work.

Key publication trends show expertise in peripheral nerve sensitization, diabetic pain mechanisms, translational pain modeling, and ion channel pharmacology. She has received multiple DGSS and German Neurology Society awards for her pain research.

• 2019 - DGSS Poster Award
• 2015 - DGSS Poster Award
• 2010 - EFIC Grünenthal Grant
• 2003 & 2018 - German Neurology Society Awards

National and international collaborations include research stays in Norway and Sweden, with extensive grant funding from DFG and IZKF projects.