Donato Teutonico has received his PharmD degree from the University of Turin, Italy, where he specialized in chemical and pharmaceutical technology, and his PhD in pharmaceutical sciences from Paris-South University, France. He has several years of experience in the modeling and simulation of drug effects and clinical trials in industrial and academic settings. Donato has contributed to numerous scientific projects and publications in international journals. In his work, he has been extensively using R for modeling, data analysis, and data visualization.

He is the author of two R packages for pharmacometrics—cts-template and panels-for-pharmacometrics—both of which are available on Google Code. He has also been a reviewer for Packt Publishing and is the author of Instant R Starter, Packt Publishing.