Student Assistant, Pharmacometrics

Are you a university student with strong programming skills in R and LaTeX? Do you want to gain hands-on experience supporting drug development in a leading pharmaceutical company?

Ascendis Pharma is looking for a Student Assistant to join our Pharmacometrics department in Hellerup.

• →Maintaining and developing R and LaTeX templates
• →Supporting QC of regulatory documents and calculations

We evaluate applications when received, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Please note that we conduct interviews on a rolling basis and reserve the right to remove the job posting at any time.   

Applications must be submitted in English and will be treated confidentially.

If you would like to learn more, please contact Kristin C. Petri, Sr. Director, Head of Pharmacometrics (mailto: kcp@ascendispharma.com).

You are currently enrolled and pursuing an academic degree. Ideally studying statistics, mathematics, data science, bioinformatics, biomedicine, pharmacy or similar.

Furthermore, you have:

• Completed at least 2 years of university studies and has at least 2 years remaining, studying

• Understand object-oriented programming and clinical time-series data
• Has strong programming skills in R (e.g., dplyr, tidyverse) and preferably experience with LaTeX (e.g., knitr, hyperref or cleveref)
• Is detail-oriented with a scientific mindset, and enjoys writing efficient and structured code (e.g., functions, packages, ggplot)

It is an advantage if you:

• Have experience with Git
• Have an interest in pharmacometrics and drug development
• Have experience with non-linear fixed effects modeling (NONMEM) and differential equations

You are a strong team player, analytical, and have a can-do attitude.

You possess an entrepreneurial mindset and can thrive in an informal, open environment where innovation and change are key.  

To succeed in this role, we also expect you to be service-minded and would like to work in a diverse team with many different ongoing tasks

We do not allow external search party solicitation.  Presentation of candidates without written permission from the Ascendis Pharma HR team (specifically from: Talent Acquisition Partner or Human Resources Director) is not allowed.  If this occurs, your ownership of these candidates will not be acknowledged.