STM People

Milan has over 25 years of managerial experience in international banking and business. After working for a reputable investment bank, Milan joined Springer, now Springer Nature, to become their head of M&A and Strategy and became the Managing Director of Key Curriculum (Berkeley, CA), Vision Care (Philadelphia, PA) and MacMillan (London, UK). Milan keeps the...

Emma is Director of Development at Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), a nonprofit working to strengthen adoption and investment in the open infrastructure that supports research and scholarship. She provides strategic coaching and advisory services to open infrastructure organizations on financial planning, business development, product-market fit, and organizational sustainability. She facilitates cross-sector dialogues to strengthen...

Ben is co-founder of Cassyni, a platform helping academics disseminate and discover scholarly research through seminars and video. He is also a Founding Investor at Scholarly Angels, a group of entrepreneurs backing the next generation of startups in the research and scholarly communications ecosystem. Prior to Cassyni, Ben co-founded Kopernio (acquired by Clarivate) and Newsflo...

Chair of the STM China Chapter, since 2024. Over 20 years in higher education and scholarly publishing, with a focus on A&I databases, bibliometrics, open science, and research integrity. Currently Regional Director, Asia‑Pacific at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET); previously with Cambridge University Press, Springer, and McGraw‑Hill.

Yanqi ZHAI, Assistant Professor, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences She works as a bibliometric analyst at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is primarily involved in the research for the Open Access Journal lndex (OAJ), the CAS Journal Ranking, and the Early Warning Journal List (EWL). Her research interests include...

Hailiang Li is the Chief Technology Director and System Architect at Youke Publishing. He was the principal creator of China Nonferrous Metals Online, which won the Third China Publishing Government Award in the Online Publication category. He also chaired the drafting of an industry standard and was recognized by the Publicity Department of the CPC...

Hong XIAO, Senior Editor, who is the expert enjoying the Special Allowance from the State Council (2000), was one of the First Batch of Discipline Leaders in the Field of National News, Publishing, Broadcasting and Television (2007), the Leading Talent in the News, Publishing, Broadcasting and Television Industry in Beijing (2016), the winner of the...

Maxim Khan serves as Senior Vice President of Academic & Government Solutions at Elsevier (part of RELX group) and works with governments, universities, researchers and industry to provide solutions that support decision making, showcasing, and improved operational efficiency. Max’s responsibility includes solutions such as ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, and Pure, as well as the linked data...

Dr. Hui Li received her Ph.D. from Beijing Forestry University in 2006 and has since dedicated her career to academic publishing. She is now Senior Editor and Director of the Journal Publishing Center at Beijing Forestry University, where she leads the management and development of five academic journals, two in English and three in Chinese....

Dylan Storan is Senior Consultant at Research Consulting. Dylan works with publishers and universities on research integrity, scholarly communication, and strategy. Before joining Research Consulting, Dylan worked as a publisher at IOP Publishing, where he managed a portfolio of materials science journals. Dylan holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Limerick and is...