Ines Vogel holds a diploma in agriculture and a PhD in soil science and is employed in the Working Group Geoecology at the Free University and the Section Environmental Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals in the Federal Environment Agency of Germany. As scientific staff in the Working Group Geoecology she has worked in several research projects on risk assessment of contaminated sites, climate, closed material cycles, soil organic matter, and soil fertility. In the Federal Environmental Agency she moreover deals with terrestrial and aquatic ecotoxicity in connection with environmental impact of pharmaceuticals.