Dr Gilbert Koch is an interdisciplinary scientist with a mathematical and computational background, specializing in clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics. He has more than 15 years of experience of analysing data from pre-clinical and clinical studies with mathematical-statistical models. Dr Koch’s main research topics are the development of decision support tools, the modelling of clinical data and maturation effects in neonates and the enhancement of pharmacometrics methodology with approaches from mathematics, optimal control theory, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. He was a co-founder (2017) and past chair (2019–2021) of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Special Interest Group, part of the International Society of Pharmacometrics, and is an editorial board member of the Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics and a member of the scientific organizing committee for the annual international meeting of the Population Approach Group Europe.