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Dr. Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Perugia (Italy) with a background in international economics. However, she later shifted her research focus to corruption in higher education, academic misconduct, plagiarism, paper mills, and predatory and hijacked journals. Her research not only involves...

Amanda Sulicz is the Manager, Research Integrity at IEEE. In this role, Amanda is responsible for leading a team responsible for resolving ethics and plagiarism allegations. Amanda shares IEEE’s commitment to upholding the integrity of the scholarly record with the broader scholarly publishing community by serving as a COPE Advisor and participating in various conferences...

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, covering Europe and Germany. In this role, his focus spans EU copyright, AI regulation, and open access policy, working closely with industry bodies to shape policy affecting research and scholarly communication, and supporting Wiley in building, expanding, and maintaining relations with government...

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 Journals at Elsevier, overseeing a portfolio of more than 3,000 journals, collectively publishing more than 800,000 research articles annually. She leads a team of over 1,600 people worldwide. Laura has been instrumental in accelerating Elsevier’s substantial progress in open access publishing, with the company now offering more than 900 gold...

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...