Susanne Krüger Kjaer is a medical doctor and professor in cancer epidemiology with focus on gynecological cancer. She is heading a group working on early detection and prevention of cancer by identification of lifestyle, socioeconomic, and genetic risk factors and other biomarkers to prevent cancer development and improve morbidity and survival from cancer. The main part of the research falls within molecular biological epidemiology with most of the studies being multidisciplinary. She has established large population-based cohorts with collection of biological samples and information on lifestyle factors. .