STM People

As Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Platforms, Hannah Heckner Swain is responsible for shaping and communicating the Silverchair Platform and ScholarOne Manuscripts product vision and roadmap. She also manages the Silverchair Universe trusted partner program, inclusive of both Silverchair Platform and ScholarOne partnerships, in addition to other key external partnerships she collaborates with clients...

Jessica Kowalski, Executive Vice President and General Manager for Research, Wiley Jessica Kowalski leads Wiley’s global research business at the intersection of technology, data, and research publishing. She brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling knowledge, data, and AI-driven businesses, with a track record of transforming legacy models into growth engines. Jessica...

Indira Sen (https://indiiigo.github.io/) is a Junior Faculty member at the University of Mannheim’s Business School. A computer scientist by training, her current research sits at the interdisciplinary intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Social Science. She investigates how AI systems such as Large Language Models are used by people in their daily lives...

Lynsey Haire is an independent scholarly publishing consultant specialising in peer review, research integrity operations and editorial processes. She works with publishers, societies and publishing service providers to improve workflows, operating models, technology and outsourced services. Before becoming a consultant, Lynsey spent 16 years at Taylor & Francis, where she began leading peer review teams...

Maria Kowalczuk is Research Integrity Auditor Manager at Frontiers. The Research Integrity Auditing team investigates large-scale cases of publication manipulation and develops processes and editorial policies to ensure that only high-quality, trustworthy research gets published. She brings over 20 years of experience in scholarly publishing, 15 of them in dedicated research integrity roles. Before joining...

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.