Professor Ahmadi holds the position as senior consulant and head of the Division of Operative Pain Therapy at the Department of Neurosurgery of the University Hospital Heidelberg. She was born in Iran and moved to Germany to continue her medical school which she began at the University of Tehran. In 1999, she finished her studies at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg. After becoming a board-certified neurosurgeon in 2006, she dedicated to specialize in neuro-oncology, for which she obtained the personal certification of the Neurosurgeon´s Academy (NCAW) for this focus and the venia legendi as a neurosurgeon in 2017. While raising her two daughters born in 2006 and 2010 Prof. Ahmadi decided to shift her focus on additional neurosurgical subspecialties which ultimately led to the attainment of the additional designation of specialized pain management and neuro-intensive care from the state medical board. In 2018 Prof. Ahmadi became the current elected speaker of the division of functional Neurosurgery of the German Neurosurgical society (DGNC) In this role, she is delegated and involved in creation of new and revision of existing national therapy guidelines related to this focus. Furthermore, she is involved in the creation of the personal certification for neurosurgical pain management as a member of the Neurosurgeon´s Academy (NCA) and as an expert advisory board member in the German Pain Society (Deutsche Schmerzgesellschaft e.V.). In August 2022 she received the professorship (APL) at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg.