Karin Sora

Karin Sora is currently Vice President STEM at De Gruyter in Berlin where she has the overall responsibility for growing a profitable international product portfolio. Karin has 28 years of experience in publishing (with Wiley-VCH, Wiley and Springer) both in Editorial, where she headed the areas Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Materials Sciences, Engineering, Computer Sciences, and in Sales for Wiley in charge of libraries, library suppliers and an e-learning platform WileyPLUS (area: GSALL). By training, she is a chemical engineer.

Essential steps in her career as product and program developer of various media were:

• Successful launch and strategy for the web product called SpringerMaterials – The Landolt Börnstein database (content and functionalities)
• Editor-in-Chief of Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, the world’s most comprehensive chemistry encyclopedia. Transformed the online product into a 40-volume printed resource (the biggest publishing enterprise worldwide) and found a new solution for the online and CD-ROM product. Received Wiley Pacesetter Award for this Achievement

Karin brings with her a broad knowledge, covering all aspects of STM publishing including journals, books and database products, and the associated technologies and strategies. Developing editorial strategies and conveying them into commercially successful editorial programs is one of her top skills. She is experienced in leading people also through significant structural changes.