Alberto Pepe
Alberto Pepe is Director of Product at Wiley / Atypon where he oversees and manages the development of open science tools and initiatives.
Prior to Wiley, Alberto was CEO and founder of Authorea, a collaborative authoring tool for researchers.
Alberto holds degrees in Astrophysics, Information and Computer Science from Harvard University, UCLA, and University College London.
His Ph.D. dissertation, on scientific collaboration networks, was awarded with the Best Dissertation Award by the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Prior to starting his Ph.D., Alberto worked in the Information Technology Department of CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, where he worked on data repository software and also promoted Open Access among particle physicists.
Alberto was born and raised in the wine-making town of Manduria, in Puglia, Southern Italy.