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