Britta Steffens studied mathematics at the University of Konstanz and specialized in statistics with more than 12 years of university-based experience in statistical modeling, pattern recognition and data analysis as well as (undergraduate) teaching. She joined the Pediatric Pharmacology Department at the Children’s University Hospital Basel (UKBB) in 2020 as an interdisciplinary scientific researcher. Her main research topics are the analysis and modeling of clinical data in the context of developing decision support tools by applying mathematical-statistical methods and approaches from pharmacometrics and machine learning.