Rik Schoemaker was born in 1963 in The Netherlands and obtained an MSc (Cum Laude) in Biology with a specialisation in Theoretical Biology from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1987. He worked as modeller and statistician at the Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility Research outpatient clinic at the Free University Hospital in Amsterdam from 1987-1989 after which he joined the Centre for Human Drug Research (CHDR) in Leiden from 1989-2007. At CHDR he worked as statistician, pharmacokineticist and mathematical modeller, and was involved in all aspects of early phase drug development. While at CHDR, he obtained his PhD on Modelling Repeated Measurements in Clinical Pharmacology in 1999. In 2000 he became a Registered Biostatistician of the Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VVS). Rik subsequently worked at Exprimo from 2007-2015 as senior consultant, hugely expanding his modelling and simulation skills, running over 20 full-scale projects for a range of clients with applications in scaling adult to paediatric PK and PK/PD, tumour growth modelling, adverse event and effect modelling using repeated ordered categorical data, viral dynamics modelling, modelling repeated daily seizure counts in epilepsy, and naturally numerous population pharmacokinetic projects. After he left Exprimo, Rik founded Occams in June 2015. Rik lives in The Netherlands.
Rik is a member of the team developing nlmixr2 and is also the 2017 recipient of the International Society of Pharmacometrics (ISoP) Leadership Award, which recognizes outstanding and sustained leadership, mentorship, and outreach contributions to the field of pharmacometrics and to the development of the strategic vision for the future direction of the field.
Rik is author and co-author of over 180 publications, including a number of original research articles in the field of PK/PD modelling. Rik was actively involved in organizing the PAGE meeting from 1996 to 2021, and additionally develops tools to aid in automatic report generation.
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