Joanna joined DOAJ as Managing Director in January 2022, after spending over 25 years in management and leadership roles in both the UK and Denmark, most recently as Head of Roskilde University Library, part of the Royal Danish Library, where she co-led the Royal Danish Library’s Open Science strategic initiative, and was chair of Roskilde University’s Open Science working group.
She was previously Associate Director at the University of Sussex, where she developed services to support open scholarship and led the library’s content and digital services teams. An active member of UKSG since 2016, she currently chairs the Board of Trustees.
Prof. Atul Khosla is a career researcher, academician, and management consultant, and a global expert in the areas of strategy, policy, innovation, organization design.
Dr. Amarendra Pani is a Higher Education Policy Research Expert with more than 25 years of experience. A Research Methodologist, Dr Pani has worked in some of the apex level Research establishments and universities in India.
Dr. (Mrs) Pankaj Mittal Secretary General of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) is the second women Secretary General of the Association in its 96 years of existence.
Prior to joining AIU, she has been serving the higher education sector, especially university education for more than 03 decades at the apex regulator of higher education, the University Grants Commission of India.
Dr. Susan Garfinkel, since 2018, works as the Associate Vice President for Research Compliance and Research Integrity Officer at The Ohio State University.
In this role, Susan is responsible for developing, implementing, and leading programs and policies to ensure university compliance with federal, state, and/or private sponsor requirements and with university policies. Susan also supports and promotes ethical and responsible research practices.
Previously, Susan served in the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI) for 14 years. She was responsible for the oversight of national and international research misconduct investigations as the Director for the Division of Investigative Oversight.
Dr. Eric O. Freed received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His Ph.D. work focused on the function of the murine leukemia virus and HIV envelope glycoproteins in membrane fusion and virus entry.
He joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH in 1992, where he worked on HIV assembly and entry/post-entry events in the HIV replication cycle.
In 1997 Dr. Freed was appointed as a Tenure-Track Investigator in NIAID, and he was promoted to a tenured Senior Investigator position in 2002. In 2003 he joined the HIV Drug Resistance Program (HIV DRP, later renamed the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program) as Head of the Virus-Cell Interaction Section. Dr. Freed was appointed Deputy Director of the HIV DRP in 2014 and since 2015 has served as Director of the Program. His research focuses on HIV-1 Gag trafficking, Env incorporation, virus assembly, budding, release, maturation, and drug resistance.
Dr. Freed has a special interest in the complex relationship between viral proteins and cellular factors and pathways, believing that characterizing fundamental aspects of the retrovirus replication cycle will suggest novel targets for the development of antiretroviral therapies.
Dr. Freed has received a number of awards and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Viruses and is an editor or associate editor for J. Mol. Biol., Science Advances, and Fields Virology.
Susana Cardoso is the Co-Chair of the Research4Life Content Strategy and Policy Committee.
Since 2017, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has been one of the Research4Life institutions and manages access to the GOALI program- Global Online Access to Legal Information.
Susana is the Chief of Client Services at the ILO Library. This role involves leading a team of librarians specialised in digital research, information and access services, user experience, and outreach communication.
Susana has more than 20 years of experience in virtual and digital libraries, E-Resources, outreach, collection and knowledge management, and research services.
David Sanders is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Yale College in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He conducted his Ph.D. research in Biochemistry with Dr. Daniel E. Koshland, Jr., who was then editor of the journal Science, at the University of California at Berkeley. David Sanders originated the idea of the “Molecule of the Year” feature in Science.
Dr. Sanders joined the Markey Center for Structural Biology at Purdue University in 1995. He was the discoverer of a biochemical reaction that leads to the entry of cancer-causing retroviruses into cells. Professor Sanders also is the author of two U.S. patents on novel gene-therapy delivery techniques. His work on the Ebola virus led to his participation in the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Biological Weapons Proliferation Prevention Program, a product of the Nunn-Lugar legislation. His responsibilities included inspecting the Vector laboratory in Siberia, which was the site of biological weapons development in the era of the Soviet Union. He has investigated the transmission of viruses from other animals to humans and is often invited to speak on ethics, biodefense, evolution, gene therapy, vaccination, and influenza viruses in public forums. Dr. Sanders has been interviewed by media around the world about his research and the role of science in public policy.
Katherine supports researchers with training, support, and advice on topics including publishing, metrics, and social media.
She runs the Library’s research café events, where Ph.D. students and academics share their work with a wider audience.
Katherine also helps promote research through community engagement.
Tom joined Frontiers in 2022 as Head of Public Affairs and Advocacy for North America, guiding relationships among public, private, and governmental organizations in the US and Canada to support Frontiers’ mission to accelerate the transition to open science.
Based in Chicago, he has 20 years of experience in relationship management, business development, and content strategy. He is formerly manager of Publisher Relations for Clarivate, where he coordinated communications with the Web of Science Group, first from the US (Philadelphia) and then from the UK (London).
Most recently, Tom managed large strategic accounts for the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), which helps rightsholders coordinate content delivery, licensing, and open-access workflows.
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