STM People

Prashant Mishra heads BMJ India & South Asia as Managing Director. He has led BMJ in South Asia since 2008 when he was the Country Manager for India. Under his leadership, the sales, marketing, technology and editorial teams have grown over the past 10 years and across two offices – in Noida and Mumbai. He...

Ralph Youngen is Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships for the American Chemical Society, where he leads efforts in identifying strategic acquisitions, developing partnerships, and fostering industry collaborations. With over 30 years of experience in the scientific publishing industry, Ralph is a passionate advocate for building shared infrastructure and driving innovation through cross-stakeholder collaboration. He currently serves...

Liz is an Associate Director at Research Consulting Ltd with a focus on projects for academic publishers and research funders, especially in the life and medical sciences. She has over a decade of experience in academic publishing and scholarly communications and before joining Research Consulting in 2024, Liz held senior roles at F1000 and Taylor...

Joris van Rossum is Program Director of STM Solutions. Joris leads various programs and projects within STM Solutions, with a special focus on the STM Integrity Hub and AI. Before joining STM, Joris worked for several leading companies and organizations across the STM publishing space, including Digital Science and Elsevier, where he initiated and led a...

Martijn Roelandse has over 20 years of scholarly publishing and bio-medical research experience.  He is Consultant at martijnroelandse.dev, where he helps startups in the digital publishing space such as SciScore to blossom, and Partner at Park 56, an independent advisory firm for corporate finance and strategy solutions. Martijn is driven by a huge curiosity for technology and is an...

Rob Johnson is the Managing Director of Research Consulting, a mission-driven business which works to improve the effectiveness and impact of research and scholarly communication. Rob’s career represents a full-circle journey: beginning with a degree in English Studies, he subsequently worked as a consultant with KPMG, the international professional services firm, and spent four years as...

Formerly a medical doctor, clinical researcher, and medical journal editor, Jigisha is an independent research integrity specialist and founder of Jigisha Patel Research Integrity Limited. After completing her PhD at the University of London, UK, Jigisha moved into academic publishing where she led the first team in publishing that was fully dedicated to maintaining research integrity....

Caroline Sutton is CEO for the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). Prior to joining STM Caroline served as Director of Open Research for Taylor & Francis. She co-founded Co-Action Publishing, a pioneer in Open Access Publishing and was one of the founders and first President of OASPA where she served on...

From a background in scientific research, Simone Taylor has a passion both for helping authors maintain an archivable record of their work in the scientific literature, and for improving accessibility to that vast and growing body of scholarship. Starting her publishing career out at Elsevier, via the National Physical Laboratory and Wiley, she has considerable...

Laurel L. Haak drives awareness of the ORCID mission, building strategic relationships, working with a broad range of constituents, ensuring organizational persistence, and directing ORCID staff and contractors. Previously, Laure was Chief Science Officer at Discovery Logic, Inc.; a program officer for the US National Academies’ Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; and editor...