Senior Scientist
Simulations Plus, Inc.
I am Priyata Kalra, Senior Sceintist in Simulation Technologies team at Simulations Plus. Currently, I am supporting the oral cavity modeling project, testing of the new software GpX and IVIVE modelling for chemicals. Prior to joining SLP, I worked for three years in multidisciplinary, collaborative project teams and addressed stakeholder needs using modeling. I worked as a Data Scientist at Bayer Crop Science where I focused on building PBPK model for plants connecting it to machine learning models for hybrid modelling od bioavailability in plants and supported project management activities, and worked in close collaboration to develop an experimental design for the plant model. Previous to that I was a computational toxicology Postdoc at BASF where I implemented PBPK, QST and IVIVE approaches in Toxicology. I received a PhD in 2018 in Natural Sciences from the University of Heidelberg, in collaboration with Bayer, where I developed QSP model for biologics.
Besides work, I find joy in brainstorming on innovative projects, implementation of new technologies in project pipelines. I am very passionate about diversity in data science and am a part of Women in AI community, also a mentor at the life sceince accelerator of state of baden wuerttemberg in Germany. In my free time you can find me observing the night sky, at poetry slams or building product prototypes with no code applications