STM People

Jessica Faucher leads product management and strategy for content platforms and Atypon at Wiley. She and her product team support the content display and distribution infrastructure for Wiley’s learning businesses and research publishing, digital commerce, ebook and test bank platforms, and the Atypon Experience Platform.

Ian Campsall is the Sr. Product Manager for the ScienceDirect Reading Experience. He has worked in publishing for more than 20 years and has spent the last 14 years in technology positions in research publishing, the last 9 of which have been at Elsevier.  He is currently focused on evolving SD into a leading cross-publisher...

Wendy Queen is the Chief Transformation Officer at Hopkins Press and the Director of Project MUSE, where she champions innovation in scholarly publishing. With a keen focus on digital transformation, she supports publishers in reaching wider audiences.    

Pierre Comizzoli started his career more than 30 years ago as a research veterinarian in French Guyana to study the seasonal reproduction of different mammalian species living in the rain forest. His next appointment was in the African Sahelo-Saharan region where he was in charge of programs monitoring health and fertility in livestock species.  Dr....

Sami Benchekroun is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morressier, a leading provider of digital infrastructure for scholarly communication. With over a decade of experience in scholarly publishing, technology, and entrepreneurship, he has dedicated his career to transforming how research is shared, evaluated, and preserved. He raised over €40 million in venture capital and successfully led...

Dr Kathleen Too is currently the Senior Vice President, Chemistry, as well as the Managing Director of China at Thieme Group. She has >18 years’ experience in STM publishing. Thieme is a world leading publisher, committed to better medicine and a healthier life. Our mission is to improve science, health and healthcare with the key...

Markus Braun serves as the Director of Books Publishing Solutions at Springer Nature, contributing his expertise in engineering and publishing. Since joining Springer Nature in 2017, Markus has advanced from roles such as Executive Editor for Engineering and Senior Editor in Automotive Engineering. Before joining Springer Nature, Markus worked for several years as a journalist....

I am an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Machine Learning and the Computer Science departments. I work in the areas of machine learning, statistics, information theory and game theory. My current takes principled and practical approaches to address various application challenges that require evaluations, such as in scientific peer review, university admissions,...

Paul Gee is a product development executive and solutions architect with 20+ years of experience transforming medical publications into digital platforms that drive audience and revenue growth. In a range of roles at AMA, JAMA, and Wolters Kluwer Health, Paul has built expertise managing product and platform solutions that align technology with the voices of...

Dr Paula Montero Llopis obtained her PhD at Yale University in the laboratory of Dr Christine Jacobs-Wagner, where she focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms by which cells achieve their intricate internal organization. Her thesis work received the John S Nicholas Prize for the outstanding doctoral candidate in “experimental zoology” from Yale University and the...