STM People

Andrea Hoffman is Chief Operating Officer at Hum, an AI company helping publishers and media organizations modernize editorial workflows, understand their audiences, and drive growth. She has helped guide Hum from an emerging startup into a trusted partner for scholarly publishers. Andrea leads operations, finance, legal, HR, and customer success, with a focus on the...

Greta Sharpe is a Senior Research Integrity Specialist with the Springer Nature Research Integrity Group, focusing on image and data irregularities in published articles. Greta has a background in biophysics and neuroscience; she completed her PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick in 2018, where she stayed as a postdoctoral researcher until she...

Dan Dyer is Vice President of Customer Success at Silverchair. He leads the team that looks after the publishers and societies using Silverchair’s platform and ScholarOne. He has spent nearly 30 years in scholarly publishing and information. That includes senior sales leadership roles at Clarivate, before moving to Silverchair when it acquired ScholarOne in 2024....

Helena is Crossref’s Director of Programs and Services. She is passionate about open research and open infrastructure and was previously at DataCite, where she served as the Community Engagement Director for over 6 years. Before then, she worked at Elsevier, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and the Dutch Brain Bank. Helena holds a...

Chris has worked at the interface of editorial and technology in the STM industry for almost 30 years. After spells with Current Science, Elsevier, BioMed Central, Springer Nature, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, and Emerald, Chris is now Director of Product Solutions at Cactus Communications. He has a particular interest in research integrity and peer review processes,...

Kevin Serpanchy is Chief Commercial Officer at Proofig AI, the leading image integrity platform for publishers, research integrity officers and research institutions around the world.  Proofig AI has screened more than 400,000 manuscripts for over 1,200 research institutions and now offers Octym which conducts more than 25 integrity checks in a manuscript review. He works...

Monica is Policy Director at Cambridge University Press, where she leads work on the Press’ policies related to open research, transparency, responsible research assessment, and other public policy positions. She serves on the board of directors at NISO and COUNTER Metrics. Her career has spanned roles across UK and US research libraries, Google Scholar, and...

Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, is a professor and research chair at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada and an Honorary Professor, Deakin University, Australia. Dr. Eaton is the Director of the Postplagiarism Research Lab, and she has received awards of excellence including the Tracey Bretag Academic Integrity Prize (2025), the European Network...

Dr. Tim Tait-Jamieson serves as the Head of Publication Ethics at MDPI. In this role, he leads the development of MDPI’s global ethics strategies, the implementation of ethics policies and processes, and the promotion of a culture of integrity. Tim holds both an MSc and a PhD in Geography from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Sue Hodgson is VP, Strategic Partnerships at Cashmere, the content infrastructure company that lets publishers license, monitor, and monetize their catalogues inside AI systems. A former executive at Elsevier, Thieme, and Perlego, she is passionate about driving growth in publishing through new channels, models, and technology partnerships.