Aki T. Heikkinen is a Principal Scientist at Certara Predictive Technologies. After qualifying as a pharmacist in 2005 Aki received his PhD from the University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland, in 2010 for his thesis on efflux transporter and permeation kinetics in vitro. Following this he worked for 4 years on intestinal absorption modeling and in vitro to in vivo extrapolation of intestinal and hepatic metabolism in human and dog as a Roche Postdoctoral Research Associate both at the F. Hoffman – La Roche site in Basel, Switzerland, and at the University or Eastern Finland.

Before joining Certara Predictive Technologies in October 2022, Aki worked for 8 years at Admescope, Oulu, Finland, where he was responsible of services and internal R&D on drug drug interactions, transporters, permeation and PBPK modeling.

At CPT Aki is currently working on development of compound files, modeling of transporter biomarkers, and development of the Simcyp Discovery simulator.