Maja Mockenhaupt, MD, PhD, started her work on severe cutaneous adverse reactions in 1990 as a research fellow at the Department of Dermatology, University of Freiburg, Germany. She is involved in various epidemiologic studies in this field, e.g. SCAR and EuroSCAR, large-scale case-control studies, the ongoing RegiSCARproject, and the German Registry of severe skin reactions. After her PhD in 2007, she received a personal grant for clinical research from the Else Kroener-Fresenius-Foundation. She trained as a dermatologist at the same department and passed her board examination in 1996. She has since worked in different clinical units of the department, including operative and conservative dermatology in the inpatient and outpatient setting, day clinic, and allergy department. She serves as a senior dermatologist with teaching obligations and managing senior physician (vice head) of the department of dermatology. She also holds the position of professor at the university’s medical faculty