STM People

Dr Anne Taylor is Associate Director, Funding Operations and Governance at Wellcome based in the UK. Wellcome is a global charitable foundation that works towards everyone benefitting from science’s potential to improve health and save lives. This is achieved by funding discovery research over a broad range of disciplines – including social sciences and the humanities –...

Bert Seghers (°1988), a mathematician by training, coordinates the Flemish Commission for Research Integrity (VCWI) since 2014, the second-advice body for investigations of research misconduct in Dutch-speaking Belgium. In that capacity, he is a member of ENRIO, the European Network of Research Integrity Offices, of which he is President since May 2025. In the last decade, he...

Sonja is Head of Division “Research Culture”, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | DFG). Before that, she served as Deputy Head of Division “Quality and Programme Management”. Her focus is on the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion, sustainability in research processes, research assessment and safeguarding research integrity. From 2012 to 2015 she was Deputy...

Freddie Taylor – Editor (Internal), IOP Publishing Mr. Freddie Taylor has worked with IOP Publishing for 7 years. He began as an Associate Editor before progressing to the role of Editor. He now heads an in-house journal team that processes newly submitted manuscripts and coordinates the peer review process across four journals. In his time...

Jo Cox is Legal Director at Springer Nature Group. After training in a top City law firm in London, Jo moved in-house 12 years ago and joined Springer Nature in August 2019.  She has advised across the Springer Nature Group portfolio of books and journals—including Nature, Springer, BMC, Palgrave Macmillan, and Discover—on legal aspects of...

Milan has over 25 years of managerial experience in international banking and business. After working for a reputable investment bank, Milan joined Springer, now Springer Nature, to become their head of M&A and Strategy and became the Managing Director of Key Curriculum (Berkeley, CA), Vision Care (Philadelphia, PA) and MacMillan (London, UK). Milan keeps the...

Emma is Director of Development at Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), a nonprofit working to strengthen adoption and investment in the open infrastructure that supports research and scholarship. She provides strategic coaching and advisory services to open infrastructure organizations on financial planning, business development, product-market fit, and organizational sustainability. She facilitates cross-sector dialogues to strengthen...

Ben is co-founder of Cassyni, a platform helping academics disseminate and discover scholarly research through seminars and video. He is also a Founding Investor at Scholarly Angels, a group of entrepreneurs backing the next generation of startups in the research and scholarly communications ecosystem. Prior to Cassyni, Ben co-founded Kopernio (acquired by Clarivate) and Newsflo...

Chair of the STM China Chapter, since 2024. Over 20 years in higher education and scholarly publishing, with a focus on A&I databases, bibliometrics, open science, and research integrity. Currently Regional Director, Asia‑Pacific at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET); previously with Cambridge University Press, Springer, and McGraw‑Hill.

Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill is speaking as Co-chair of the UK Committee on Research Integrity, which is dedicated to strengthening the research system through promotion of rigour, transparency, openness, and other core principles of integrity. Throughout her research career, Rachael has led interdisciplinary work with a strong focus on health. Her work has included projects on...