She holds a PhD from the department of Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, for her research on Bayesian methods for evidence synthesis and decision making in Health Technology Assessments. Susanne graduated in Mathematics from RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Her research interests are Bayesian biostatistics, evidence synthesis, meta-analytical methods such as mixed treatment comparison models as well as the role of uncertainty in decision theory and multiple criteria decision analysis. She has worked on applications related to rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis C and rotavirus modelling