Jessica Polka

Jessica Polka, Ph.D. serves as Executive Director of ASAPbio, a researcher-driven nonprofit organization working to promote innovation and transparency in life sciences publishing in areas such as preprinting and open peer review.

Prior to this, she performed postdoctoral research in the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School following a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from UCSF.

Jessica is also a Plan S Ambassador, an affiliate of the Knowledge Futures Group, and a steering committee member of Rescuing Biomedical Research.