Susanne Gjeruldsen Dudman, MD, PhD, Professor, Senior Consultant Susanne Dudman works as a Professor of Virology at the University of Oslo, Norway, and is a Senior Consultant at Oslo University Hospital in the Department of Microbiology. She is also the current President of the Norwegian Society for Virology, and was a Councillor of the European Society for Clinical Virology from 2013 to 2023. Susanne Dudman is the research group leader of the Clinical Virology research group at Oslo University Hospital (www.ous-research.no/clinvir/).  The research group, consisting of 20 virologists, carries out clinical research in virology with a special focus on diagnostics and pathogenesis. Her main research interests are viral hepatitis, enteric viruses and respiratory viruses, and viral infections in immunosuppressed patients and in pregnancy. Currently, she is leading a large clinical trial funded by a grant from the Research Council of Norway Globvac funds, testing the effectiveness and safety of a hepatitis E vaccine in an endemic area within Bangladesh. ORCID number: 0000-0001-5047-4982