Rik Schoemaker
Owner And Senior Consultant PK PD Modelling at Occams
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRik Schoemaker is a veteran PK/PD modeller and consultant with over three decades of hands-on experience in early phase drug development, now founder and senior consultant at Occams. He holds an MSc (cum laude) in Theoretical Biology and a PhD in Statistics, and has led population pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic projects spanning paediatrics, oncology, epilepsy, infectious disease and adverse event modelling. Rik has run 20+ full-scale modelling projects, authored over 170 publications, and is known for applying population methods to small-sample, data-rich studies and automating report generation workflows. A long-time organiser of the PAGE meeting and former senior consultant at Exprimo and CHDR, he blends deep academic rigor with pragmatic, client-facing delivery. Notably, he built tooling to streamline automatic report production—turning complex analyses into reproducible, polished outputs for sponsors.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Theoretical Biology, MSc, Theoretical Biology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)PhD, Statistics, PhD, Statistics at Leiden UniversityVWO-Atheneum B, VWO-Atheneum B at Hermann Wesselink College, Amstelveen, The NetherlandsDumbarton Junior High School, Baltimore, MD, USA
English, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
r-package10
modeling9
nlp4
turkish4
spanish1
sentence-similarity1
routines1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nlmixr2/courses
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
nlmixr2 courses
Contributions:9 commits, 26 pushes in 1 month
GitOccams/NhanesPosologyGraphs
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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