JOINMelissa Junior
Melissa Junior serves as Chief Publishing Officer at the American Society for Microbiology.
With a background in scientific publishing focused on society-based journals and open access transitions, she provides strategic, editorial, and commercial leadership for ASM’s portfolio of peer-reviewed journals and books. Under her leadership, ASM has launched new titles, built an editorial development team that drives strategic growth, and successfully transitioned multiple journals to sustainable open access models.
She champions a proactive vision that positions library partnerships as essential to expanding global research impact, demonstrating that open access can be both mission-aligned and financially sustainable while maintaining the rigorous peer review and editorial excellence that defines scientific publishing.