STM People

Robert M Harington D.Phil is the Chief Publishing Officer at the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Robert has the overall responsibility for publishing at the AMS, including books, journals and electronic products. Robert is a “Chef” for The Scholarly Kitchen Blog. Robert has worked in non-profit and commercial settings, internationally, with particular experience across the United...

Miriam Maus is Chief Publishing Officer at IOP Publishing (IOPP), one of the world’s leading learned society publishers. Miriam is responsible for the creation and delivery of the organisation’s publishing and researcher engagement strategy. She is a member of IOPP’s Board of Directors. IOPP’s product portfolio encompasses 110+ open access and hybrid journals, books series, many...

Jackie Benoist joined STM in September 2022 part-time as Executive Assistant to Caroline Sutton, CEO. In her role, Jackie supports Caroline by helping to administer and assist with the organization of key strategic projects within STM. Before joining STM Jackie worked for almost two decades at Taylor & Francis an Informa UK business as part...

Dr. Paul-André Genest is an Assistant Director and Publisher at the American Chemical Society where he is responsible for the management of roughly a third of the ACS journals portfolio and Editorial Development team. Since 2016, he is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he co-teaches a yearly course on scholarly communication (BIOS 292:...

Kayla Dos Santos is a Senior Acquisitions Editor at Elsevier and has been responsible for the Electronic. Magnetic and Optical Materials Science & Engineering books portfolio for the past 6 years. She began her career in publishing 11 years ago as an Editorial Assistant at the health science textbook publisher Jones & Bartlett Learning. At...

Samuel Goodchild is a Publisher at Springer Nature working within the Open Access journals group out of Heidelberg, Germany. Sam started his publishing career at Springer Nature in 2018, working on books and journals in Earth Science, having worked in a number of varied professions from engineering geology to teaching. He advises on, guides and...

Shuai Yan is STM China Consultant since November 2021. In his role, Shuai will support STM’s policy and advocacy work across China. Shuai worked in the Journal Publishing Department of Beijing Forestry University from 1985 to 2011, starting as an assistant editor and working up to the director of the Department. From 2011 to 2017...

Teodoro Pulvirenti, PhD Senior Director, Global Editorial Strategy, ACS Publications (https://www.linkedin.com/in/teodoro-pulvirenti-2b264129/). Teodoro (Teo) oversees the portfolio of ACS Journals, which includes more than 80 titles covering diverse fields of chemistry and related sciences, and is responsible for the portfolio development and strategy. He is also responsible for the ACS Partner Publishing strategy in the US...

Bernd Pulverer, Ph.D. Chief Editor | EMBO Reports Head | Scientific Publications Following undergraduate studies in Cambridge, Bernd received his PhD in 1992 from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London. He carried out postdoctoral research at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle and at the University of Innsbruck. Bernd was...

Leslie Lansman joined Springer Nature as their Global Permissions Manager in 2019.  She oversees the licensing of all book and journal permissions across all SN imprints. Before joining SN, Leslie pursued a PhD in copyright law at Queen Mary University CCLS, as well as leading several copyright policy initiatives in conjunction with the Intellectual Property...