Lou Woodley

Lou Woodley is the Community Engagement Director for Trellis, the new online communication and collaboration platform being developed by AAAS. She is also the Program Director for the AAAS Community Engagement Fellows Program to train and support scientific community engagement managers. Lou is a trained molecular biologist with research experience at Cambridge University, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, and the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona. Since leaving the bench, she's gained extensive experience in on- and offline community engagement.

Prior to Trellis, Lou spent 5 years overseeing Nature Publishing Group's community projects such as Nature Network, the nature.com editorial blogs, and online coverage of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and Nobel Week Dialogue. Lou has additionally organized community-focused events of various formats and sizes, many of which have focused on science communication and Open Science. These include the SpotOn events and the Open Knowledge Festival 2014.

Lou explores the intersection of people, science and technology on her blog, Social in Silico, and you can also follow her on Twitter, where she's @LouWoodley.