STM People

Dr. Nandita Quaderi is a Senior Vice President and the Editor-in-Chief for Web of Science at Clarivate. Nandita has oversight of the Web of Science editorial division, the Institute for Scientific Information and the Research Professional News team. She has overall responsibility for editorial strategy, selection of Web of Science content and inclusion in Journal...

Priya Madina is VP, External Affairs and Policy.  Priya joined Taylor & Francis in December 2019. She has extensive experience in developing and positioning global policies with the relevant stakeholders and decision-makers. Priya sits on the company’s Race and Ethnicity Network and the Publishers Association’s Academic Publishers Council. Before joining the world of publishing, Priya...

Ella Colvin is Director of Publishing, Journals at Cambridge University Press & Assessment responsible for the editorial programme across STEM, Humanities and Social Science journals. She is a member of the Academic Board, and of the Academic Publishing Committee of the Press Syndicate that has oversight of the quality, development and performance of the academic...

Steven Heffner is currently the Managing Director, Publications, and Chief Publishing Officer for IEEE Publications, where he is responsible for the general operations and commercial performance of the Institute’s portfolio of 200 learned journals, 50 society magazines (including IEEE Spectrum), and the IEEE Press book imprint. Steven and the publications leadership team work with IEEE’s volunteers...

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...