Anja Glockmann was born in 1967 in Ludwigsburg, Germany. She studied biology at the University of Konstanz and graduated as a biologist. She has worked at Forstliche Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt Baden-Württemberg, Germany as research scientist and at the University of Freiburg, Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Germany as a data manager. Since 1998 she is research scientist and data manager at the Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Freiburg, Germany. Anja Glockmann has published ca 50 papers, articles, book chapters and monographs as co-author.