Hi pharmaverse community,On behalf of the council we wanted to update you on 2 council members who are passing on the baton to new representatives from their respective companies.Firstly, Michael Rimler (who is one of our original co-founders) will transition council responsibilities for GSK to Alice Ehmann. Michael will never be too far away though, as he maintains his role on the PHUSE board as Open Source Technologies Director. His passion, creativity and ambition were one of the key reasons we have such a thriving pharmaverse suite of open source solutions and the community we see today.Alice Ehmann joins having previously being a package lead and contributor for admiral {admiral} and as a long term R and open source enthusiast.Secondly, Damian Rodziewicz is handing over the Appsilon council representative role to Marcin Dubel. Damian has brought such enthusiasm to our council during his term and has helped us to expand our outreach. We’ll miss his level-headed and pragmatic style, and how he always championed the everyday users of pharmaverse packages.Marcin is the Head of Technology at Appsilon, so will bring extra technical skill depth to the council and will continue in Damian’s great example.Please join us in thanking Michael and Damian for all they’ve done for our community, and welcome to Alice and Marcin! You’ll find photos and bios for our new council members below.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.Bios:Alice EhmannAlice Ehmann is an accomplished programming leader with over 25 years experience in various roles within the pharmaceutical industry. She joined GSK in 2019 and is currently an Associate Director of programming within the clinical programming group.She has helped to drive R adoption from its inception at GSK, while also pioneering the use of agile methodologies in programming workflows. As an early R adopter, she played a key role in the early collaboration with Roche and GSK on the development of the admiral {admiral} package. She is now focused on integrating AI into R workflows and modernizing programming processes in R.Marcin DubelMarcin Dubel is a seasoned R Shiny developer with a career dating back to 2015. He has crafted applications for diverse sectors such as finance, pharmaceuticals, logistics and entertainment, tailoring solutions to meet industry-specific challenges. Marcin is the Head of Technology at Appsilon, where he has been since 2019.He drives project quality and innovation, making sure all Appsilon projects meet their high-standard criteria. His responsibilities include leading AI projects and championing the adoption of language model technologies within the company. Marcin holds a master’s degree in data science and finance.Last updated2025-10-31 15:00:17.481371DetailsSource, Session infoReuseCC BY 4.0CitationBibTeX citation:@online{farrugia2025, author = {Farrugia, Ross}, title = {New {Council} {Members}}, date = {2025-10-31}, url = {https://pharmaverse.github.io/blog/posts/2025-10-31_new__counci.../new__council__members.html}, langid = {en}}For attribution, please cite this work as:Farrugia, Ross. 2025. “New Council Members.” October 31,2025. https://pharmaverse.github.io/blog/posts/2025-10-31_new__counci…/new__council__members.html.Continue reading: New Council Members