STM People

Gráinne leads the Research Integrity / Publication Ethics team at Karger Publishers, responsible for developing research integrity policies and conducting investigations for all Karger publications, and is an elected COPE Council member as of 2025. Since 2017, she has been working in research integrity teams at publishers, and she is particularly interested in promoting activities...

Nancy is COO and Senior Associate at Maverick Publishing Consultants. She has over 25 years’ experience in publishing operations, and offers clear thinking and practical, impactful recommendations. Her focus is on helping organizations work better, and she also specializes in management and leadership development and organizational design.

Dr. Jennifer Wright is the Head of Publication Ethics and Research Integrity at Cambridge University Press. She is also an elected COPE Council member and a registered advisor for the UK Research Integrity Office. She participates in the STM Researcher Identity Task and Finish Group alongside other initiatives such as NISO CREC, the Forensic Scientometrics...

Apoorva Shah is Vice President of Product Management and UX at Wiley, where he leads strategic initiatives to enhance product value and drive innovation across the company’s publishing and solutions portfolio. Shah spearheads Wiley’s platform that enables scholarly content discovery through AI tools while maintaining academic integrity and proper attribution standards. Shah has established strategic...

With more than twenty-five years of experience in scholarly communications and association management, Lori Carlin is a recognized expert in business strategy, customer and market insight, and change management. Lori is currently the Chief Commercial Officer at Delta Think, a consultancy focused on strategy, and has also held senior positions for a number of scholarly...

Dr Fulu (Olufolake) Akinduro-Aje is a Research Integrity Manager within the Publishing Ethics and Integrity Team at Taylor and Francis Group, Journals, where she provides investigative support and advice on research ethics and integrity cases, and contributes to the continuous improvement of editorial processes and policies.

Dr Anne Taylor is Associate Director, Funding Operations and Governance at Wellcome based in the UK. Wellcome is a global charitable foundation that works towards everyone benefitting from science’s potential to improve health and save lives. This is achieved by funding discovery research over a broad range of disciplines – including social sciences and the humanities –...

Bert Seghers (°1988), a mathematician by training, coordinates the Flemish Commission for Research Integrity (VCWI) since 2014, the second-advice body for investigations of research misconduct in Dutch-speaking Belgium. In that capacity, he is a member of ENRIO, the European Network of Research Integrity Offices, of which he is President since May 2025. In the last decade, he...

Sonja is Head of Division “Research Culture”, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | DFG). Before that, she served as Deputy Head of Division “Quality and Programme Management”. Her focus is on the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion, sustainability in research processes, research assessment and safeguarding research integrity. From 2012 to 2015 she was Deputy...

Freddie Taylor – Editor (Internal), IOP Publishing Mr. Freddie Taylor has worked with IOP Publishing for 7 years. He began as an Associate Editor before progressing to the role of Editor. He now heads an in-house journal team that processes newly submitted manuscripts and coordinates the peer review process across four journals. In his time...