Nanna Brix Finnerup

Nanna Finnerup received her medical degree from Aarhus University in 1993. After medical training in Copenhagen, she started clinical neuropathic pain research in 1998. She is Professor in neuropathic pain research and head of the Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University, Denmark. She was a member of NeuPSIG from 2010 to 2022 and served as treasurer and chair, and was section editor of the journal Pain from 2015 to 2024. She is past president of the Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain (SASP) and has been a member of the IASP task forces on Classification of Pain Diseases (ICD-11), Cannabinoids, and the Definition of Pain. She has authored more than 230 peer-reviewed papers. Her main research interest is the pathophysiology and therapy of neuropathic pain. Current research areas include painful chemotherapy and diabetic polyneuropathy, postsurgical neuropathic pain, spinal cord injury pain, cerebral palsy, radiculopathy, complex regional pain syndrome, and Guillain-Barr