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Biography
Ines Steffens is the editor-in-chief of Eurosurveillance. She succeeded Karl Ekdahl in this role in 2011.
Career
Prior to joining Eurosurveillance, Steffens worked at the Robert Koch Institute, where she was editor-in-chief of the Epidemiologisches Bulletin, Germany's national epidemiology journal. She joined Eurosurveillance as managing editor in 2006 and became editor-in-chief in 2011. She spoke on behalf of Eurosurveillance at the 2015 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Steffens is a member of the editorial board of the European Food Safety Authority's journal. She was a member of the European Association of Science Editors' Gender Policy Committee and the peer review committee in 2017. In addition, she was a member of the association's programme committee for the 2020 conferencewhere she presented a virtual talk on how the COVID-19 pandemic had affected Eurosurveillance
Education
Steffens studied medicine at University of Mainz, graduating in 1994. In 2000, while studying at the Technical University of Berlin, she co-signed a letter published by the Verein Demokratischer Pharmazeutinnen und Pharmazeuten (association of pharmacists) defending Rolf Rosenbrock of espionage accusations.