STM People

Jo has worked in environmental sustainability for over 20yrs, joining Sage in Feb 2023 to lead the development and implementation of their global sustainability strategy and net zero roadmap. Jo started her career at a UK government funded organisation leading large UK-wide energy efficiency and renewable projects before moving to a variety of positions, including...

Dr. Ralf Schimmer is Wiley’s Senior Director of Government Partnerships and Public Policy. In this role, he works with a range of stakeholders to inform policy and direction in Wiley’s transition to open access, leads strategy workshops with partners and customers, runs thought leadership events from Wiley’s Innovation Lab in Berlin, and supports Wiley in...

Liz joined IOP Publishing in 1995 as a Desk Editor and has worked up to her current role. Liz is responsible for the production teams, based in the UK and the US, handling IOP Publishing’s journals, books, and conference proceedings. As such, she is responsible for the development and implementation of sustainable, effective, and high-quality...

Laura Hassink is Managing Director for STM Journals. In that capacity she is responsible for Elsevier’s portfolio of 2,750 journals managed by more than 30,000 editors, who collectively publish more than 600,000 research articles a year. She leads a team of over 1350 people worldwide. Laura has a genuine passion for understanding the needs of...

Aaron Wood leads product development and strategy, as well as indexing and production systems, for the American Psychological Association, a publisher of books, journals, courseware, video, and discovery solutions. His experience in scholarly communications and publishing is broad and multinational.   Wood has led metadata and technical services at academic libraries and consortia, streaming video...

Daniel Acuna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Founder of ReviewerZero AI https://www.reviewerzero.ai He has created tools to improve literature search, peer review, and detect scientific fraud. He has been funded by NSF, ORI (DDHS), Sloan Foundation, and DARPA. In 2021, he organized the Computational...

Mike leads Wiley’s work in implementing best practices and policy for integrity and ethics in Wiley’s Research journals portfolio; he champions quality and transparency in research publishing. At Wiley, Mike works alongside a diverse group of research integrity, operations, technology, and subject matter experts to resolve integrity and ethics concerns, incorporate best practices in screening,...

Part of the founding management team at Digital Science, as Director of Portfolio Development Steve has been involved in the majority of Digital Science’s portfolio investments, focussing on taking early-stage startup founders through product and business model validation to launch and growth. An entrepreneur himself, Steve has been involved in the startup space since the...

Sarah Jenkins is the Director for Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics at Elsevier.  Sarah and her team promote research integrity through policies, best practices, and education, support Elsevier’s Publishing Teams and Editors to investigate and resolve ethics cases and work with experts across Elsevier to build tools and develop processes to detect unethical practices during...

Tony Alves has worked in scholarly publishing since 1990, focusing on digital publishing, designing workflow management software, and online products. Tony is SVP of Product Management at HighWire Press, the platforms division of MPS Limited, overseeing a suite of platform products that address the entire scholarly publishing infrastructure, from workflow to hosting to analytics. Tony...