Deirdre Black is Head of Science and the Sustainability Strategy Lead at the Royal Society of Chemistry. Her role includes using insights on global trends in science to inform strategy and develop programmes. She has variously led the RSC’s policy, scientific programmes and international engagement teams.
Exploring the interfaces between science, digitisation and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, she has focussed on specific topics like AI and automation in R&D, recognition and multidisciplinary collaboration in science, and greener science. She led the development of the RSC’s first organisational Sustainability Strategy Blueprint and is the sponsor of its Sustainable Labs programme. She held postdoctoral positions in physics and in science education policy in the USA and UK before joining the RSC in 2011.
Neil has extensive interests in sustainable digital scholarship supported by open, pragmatic systems and standards.
He is a co-creator of the International Image Interoperability Framework and the Oxford Common File Layout, community lead for the SWORD protocol, and contributed to the ePub/A specification recently submitted to ISO. Neil also teaches and does research in the Digital Humanties.
Wiebke Krasting is the Senior Vice President of Data Engineering at Elsevier, where she leads a technology organization responsible for extracting, linking, enriching, and curating high-quality research data, including Scopus Author Profiles.
Wiebke has spent the majority of her career as an engineer and architect, later transitioning into leadership positions across various companies. She has consistently focused on solutions that leverage high-quality data to drive insights and promote scalable, responsible data processing.
Debora Comparin is Standardization Expert at Thales Digital Identity & Security, founder and chair of the OSIA Initiative, co-founder of SIDI Hub and Advisory Board member of the Linux Foundation Europe.
She is a strong advocate for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.9 ‘Identity for all by 2030’ and in 2019 founded the OSIA initiative, a public-private sector partnership to build interoperability for national identity infrastructures. OSIA is recognized as an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) standard by its 193 governments.
In 2023 Debora co-founded SIDI Hub, a platform for standard organizations, governments and non-profits to define a solution for cross-border digital Identity interoperability.
Today, Debora is a Tech Policy Fellow at UC Berkeley where she is analyzing how secure hardware platform(s) technology aligns with policy requirements to ensure the security of digital wallets.
She holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from University of Padova.
Seán O’Connor’s (they/them) research and practice focus on intellectual property and business law for commercializing innovation in technology and arts.
Professor O’Connor received their law degree from Stanford Law School, a master’s degree in philosophy from Arizona State University, and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Before graduate school they were a singer-songwriter and rock band front person with two DIY albums that received local airplay in the Northeast.
They are currently serving as Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music Law & Policy (Oxford University Press) and of 5G and Beyond: Intellectual Property and Competition Policy in the Internet of Things (forthcoming Cambridge University Press 2023)(with Jonathan Barnett). Professor O’Connor is also Founder & Executive Director of the Music Ecosystems Institute, Washington, D.C. USA.
Patrick Hargitt is the Senior Director of Product Management at Atypon, where he leads the Atypon Experience Platform. With a career in the software industry dating back to the mid-1990s, Patrick brings a wealth of experience in leading product development, building scalable platforms, and shaping technological strategies. Since joining Atypon in 2015, he has modernized product roadmaps and optimized delivery practices. Patrick is actively involved in shaping industry practices through his participation in various industry groups.
Olivia Nippe is a Senior Publishing Ethics Expert working in Elsevier’s Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics (RI&PE) Centre of Expertise.
Upon completion of her PhD in Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom in 2019, Olivia joined Elsevier as an Associate Scientific Editor, quickly developing a passion for research integrity, and joined the RI&PE team in 2021.
While involved in the investigation and resolution of a wide range of ethics cases, Olivia has a particular interest in Image Alteration and Duplication Detection, being a part of the STM Image Integrity working group, as well as in sharing best practice in publishing ethics with research communities.
Kim is a COPE Council member and participates in many cross-functional working groups including the STM integrity hub.
In 2023 Kim was selected as one of the inaugural “People of Publishing” by the Publishers Association and received the new ALPSP Impact Award 2023 on behalf of IOPP for their work combining double anonymous and transparent peer review.
Alice Coles-Aldridge is a Senior Editor on the Publication Ethics team at PLOS. She leads several pre-publication and prevention work projects and manages pre- and post-publication ethics cases across the breadth of the PLOS journal portfolio.
At PLOS, Alice works with journal teams, operations, subject matter experts, and PLOS’ communities to resolve integrity and ethics concerns, enforce policies, trial new tools to uphold research and publication quality and update workflows to maintain quality and integrity at scale. Alice represents PLOS at events and working groups to inspire leading policies for ethical research conduct and academic integrity and share PLOS’ mission to build an open, fair, and trustworthy foundation of knowledge.
Before joining PLOS Alice worked on a number of journals and on the Publishing Ethics team at the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Catriona Leslie (2024) is a Research Integrity Auditor Manager at Frontiers. Her team specialises in large scale investigations across all of Frontiers journals and is responsible for maintaining high quality of publications with regards to ethical standards and research integrity.
She has helped develop new checks and AI-powered tools for a robust quality triage as well as been responsible for workflow and policy updates to maintain quality and integrity at scale.
Before joining Frontiers she worked on a number of journals in Springer Nature’s BMC Series.
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