Katherine Giacoletti is a statistician in the Center for Mathematical Sciences, part of Merck & Co., Inc. Katherine has worked as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry for over 22 years and has expertise across the product lifecycle, from product and process development through validation and commercial supply, as well as all stages of clinical development from First in Human through licensure and beyond. She holds a Master of Statistics degree from North Carolina State University, with a focus in biostatistics, and before starting in Pharma she worked in survey research at the Research Triangle Institute. Katherine lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and daughter and 2 cats, and in her spare time is a dancer and a teacher of Scottish dancing.