STM People

Gengyan Tang is a PhD candidate at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. His research primarily examines paper mills in China as an issue in the sociology of science, focusing on how they are embedded in China’s higher education system, for example, by operating through networks of personal relationships. He also studies how...

Barbara Kline Pope is executive director of Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP), one of the nation’s largest university presses, annually publishing 120 new books and 115 journals across the life, health, and social sciences, public health, and humanities. At JHUP, she is also responsible for Project MUSE, an innovative aggregation of 100,000 books and 800...

Witold Kozakiewicz, MSc, is Director of the Information and Library Centre at the Medical University of Lodz and President-elect of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries for the 2027–2028 term. He also serves as Vice-President of the Executive Board of the Conference of Directors of Academic Libraries of Polish Schools and Chair of...

Jonathan Woahn is the Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Cashmere, where he helps publishers and AI companies build the infrastructure needed for trusted, licensed use of premium content. His work focuses on the practical challenges of AI retrieval—identity, rights, provenance, attribution, and compensation—and how to design systems that allow AI innovation and sustainable publishing...

Ting Yue is a Professor at the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC), and leads the Open Access Journal Index(OAJ) selection team. Her research focuses on scientometrics and research evaluation. She has led over 20 decision-support projects commissioned by NSFC, MOST, and CAS. She has also authored a monograph and over 20 peer-reviewed publications.

Dr. Julia Kostova is the Vice President for Academic Partnerships for the Americas at Taylor & Francis. She oversees partnership strategy, institutional and community engagement, and advocacy, collaborating with research communities, institutions, libraries, funders and other stakeholders to create and disseminate transformative, cutting-edge research. Dr. Kostova brings nearly 20 years of experience in the publishing...

Chris Sibbons is a not-for-profit veteran. He has spent his career making things work and then making them better! Through Cambridge Assessment to Cambridge University Press and now with Canadian Science Publishing, his objective is always to set high targets and get as close to those targets as possible. At Cambridge, as Content Operations Director,...

Jackie Kelley is a Senior Publisher on the Open Access team at Oxford University Press (OUP), where she leads the strategic growth and development of a portfolio of leading STM journals, including JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, The Oncologist, and PNAS Nexus, published in partnership with editors and academic societies such as the...

Pat Hannah completed a PhD in Plant Biochemistry before joining CSIRO Publishing in 2023. Since transitioning into scholarly publishing, he has developed a strong interest in projects that place research communities at the centre of the publishing process, work that directly supports STM’s mission of building a more inclusive research and publishing ecosystem. His focus...

Liz Ferguson began her career in scientific publishing at Current Science, Thomson Science and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins before moving to Blackwell Publishing, acquired by Wiley in 2007. Wiley is where she has now spent almost two decades progressing through various roles in editorial, society management, and open research. Today, as Senior Vice President for...