Susanne Pumpluen is an Associative Professor in Pure Mathematics at the University of Nottingham. She completed her Habilitation at the University of Regensburg, Germany, in 2002 and obtained her PhD in Mathematics (Dr. rer. nat.) from Fernuniversitat, Germany, in 1995. Currently, she is on sabbatical and a visiting researcher at the University of Ottawa. She previously also visited the University of Trento, Italy, and also repeatedly visited/worked at the New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, US.