STM People

Kazuma Kobayashi M.D., D.Sc. is a Senior Staff Scientist and Radiation Oncologist at the National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan and a Project Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics. He has over ten years’ experience as a physician and is board-certified in radiation oncology with more than seven years of R&D in...

Megan McCarty holds a BM in Music Literature from Southwestern University, an MA in Musicology from Boston University, and was a DAAD scholarship recipient in Germany from 2012-2013. She joined J&J Editorial in 2015, where she managed submission-to-print workflows with customers from the Genetics Society of America to Oxford University Press to ensure stakeholder satisfaction...

Lecturer, Department of Medical Education, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan Dr. Hajime Kasai is a Lecturer in Medical Education at Chiba University’s Graduate School of Medicine, specializing in medical education, with a background in respiratory medicine. He is actively involved in designing, implementing, and evaluating educational programs for medical students and residents, including...

Yoshiko Kakita is the Vice President of Scopus Product Management at Elsevier, based in Japan. As a strategic and results-oriented leader, she is dedicated to developing solutions that address the evolving needs of the scientific community. With over 19 years of experience in both product and sales roles, her unwavering passion is to make the...

Executive Secretary of the ISC Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (CFRS) and ISC Senior Science Officer. Vivi is a Clinical Psychologist and development worker with extensive international experience in humanitarian emergencies and post-conflict situations as a researcher, evaluator and social development consultant. She has worked with academic institutions, the UN, development agencies and...

Paweł M. Rowiński is a professor of Earth sciences at the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. Since September 1, 2023, he has been Director of the Institute, a role he also held from 2008 to 2015. In June 2024, he was elected President of the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities...

Andrew became Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries 2024. He leads a team of scholarly communication, policy, advocacy, education, DEI, data, and governance experts for ARL’s 125 member libraries. Prior to ARL, Andrew was executive director for the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions library consortium. He held Executive Director positions at...

Peter Berkery has served as the Executive Director of the Association of University Presses since early 2013. Berkery came to AUPresses (then AAUP) from Oxford University Press, where he served for the previous five years as Vice President and Publisher for the US Law Division. Prior to that he worked for Wolters Kluwer for 11...

Samantha Green is the Director of Product Marketing at Silverchair. She collaborates closely across teams to ensure that Silverchair’s products have the greatest possible impact and offer powerful solutions to clients and partners. She has worked in scholarly publishing for more than a decade, building a deep understanding of different stakeholder perspectives and priorities in...

Erica Kimmerling, PhD, is at the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) as the Senior Director for their Future of Science Strategies. Most recently she was the Assistant Director for Community Driven Health at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Her health outcomes portfolio included rare diseases, cancer prevention, participatory biomedical innovation,...