Council Member updates

Hi pharmaverse community,

On behalf of the council we wanted to update you on the latest council member 2-yearly renewals.

Firstly, we’d like to thank Ari Siggaard Knoph, who has stepped back from his Novo Nordisk council representative role as of Jan 2025. Ari brought so much to the pharmaverse council in his 2 years with us, including amazing technical work to make our site homepage as visually appealing as it is today with our hexwall and contributor network graph, plus impactful presentations at PHUSE and beyond. He showed great passion for open source and as a user himself of many of the pharmaverse packages, he always kept us true to what people working in clinical reporting care most about.

With this, we are delighted to welcome Julia Gnatek as Ari’s replacement to represent Novo Nordisk on the council. Julia has been a statistical programmer at Novo Nordisk for over 5 years. She began her career as a statistical programmer and is now a statistical programming project lead within the Rare Disease area. As an R, SAS, and Python user, Julia is dedicated to leveraging her programming skills to drive innovation within the organization. Outside of work, she enjoys participating in data science communities and attending industry conferences to stay updated with the latest trends and advancements.

Please join us in thanking Ari for his contributions and welcoming Julia!

We also have several other council members terms due to expire as of March 2025, and we’re happy to confirm that Michael Rimler, Mike Stackhouse, Sumesh Kalappurakal and Ross Farrugia have all agreed to renew council membership for another 2 years. As the 4 founding members of pharmaverse we all felt there was still so much more impact this initiative can achieve, and we wanted to continue to commit our time to helping open source prosper for the good of all patients across the world.

If you ever want to know more about our council please check our site page, and you can reach all of us using: pharmaverse.council@phuse.global.

@online{council2025,
  author = {council, pharmaverse},
  title = {Council {Member} Updates},
  date = {2025-02-28},
  url = {https://pharmaverse.github.io/blog/posts/2025-02-28_council__me.../council__member_updates.html},
  langid = {en}
}