STM People

Hua He, M.D., Mphil Dr. He received her medical training in Xiangya Medical School, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China. She worked as a resident in the Department of Geriatrics, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China. In 2002, she went to Hong Kong and completed her M.Phil thesis research in gastric and...

Dr Jenny Foster leads the Journals Publishing Program at CSIRO Publishing, a not-for-profit science publisher owned by CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, based in Australia.  Jenny has over 30 years’ experience in scholarly communications and oversees a portfolio of 31 journals managed by more than 700 editors. Responsible for journal strategy, operations, and...

Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Paradigm Publishing Services I joined Paradigm, which is the publishing services division of De Gruyter Brill in April 2025 to work on marketing, internal and external communications and branding and bring together teams at Sciendo, Ubiquity and the University Press Library. My previous job in publishing was at Taylor &...

Stefan Tochev is the Chief Executive Officer of MDPI, having joined the company in 2020. He holds a BA Honours in Sociology from the University of Guelph (Canada) and a Post-Diploma in Marketing Management from George Brown College (Canada). With over a decade of experience as a Project Manager and Research Consultant for global market...

René Aquarius is a biomedical scientist working at the Neurosurgery department of the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Besides his regular work, which focuses mainly on systematic reviews, as well as vivo, in vitro, and clinical research in the field of vascular neurosurgery, he has also been active as a so-called ‘science...

Matt Chan joined the American Chemical Society in August 2022 as Vice President of Global Marketing, ACS Publications. Matt is responsible for defining, refining, and implementing marketing strategies to engage target audiences with ACS’ portfolio of journals, and a growing range of research-centric products and services. Prior to ACS, Matt was Senior Vice President of...

Reese Richardson is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Broadly, his research interests concern the formation of collective knowledge, maintaining the integrity of the scientific literature, and systematic studies of industrialized academic and scientific fraud. He earned his PhD...

“Photo copyright Dalibor Gabela” Daniel Ucko is the Head of Ethics and Research Integrity at the American Physical Society (APS), where he is responsible for the publication ethics and integrity of the Physical Review journals. In this role he also shapes journal and ethics policy for the society. He has been an elected member of...

Dr Marie F Soulière is the Head of Editorial Ethics and Quality Assurance at the open-access publisher Frontiers, based in Switzerland. She leads strategic publishing projects across departments and product platforms. Her expertise focuses on balancing rigorous quality assurance and ethical standards with operational efficiency, enhanced by the strategic use of technology. With a PhD...

Following a master’s in writing from the University of East Anglia, Clare began her career in scholarly publishing at Springer Nature in London. Nearly two years later, she returned to the US and joined the Publications team at IEEE, where she currently serves as Author Engagement and Product Support Associate. In this role, she focuses...