STM People

Senior Vice President, Researcher & Librarian Solutions, Elsevier Rose L’Huillier has spent over two decades at Elsevier in publishing, strategy, and product leadership, and now leads product strategy for Elsevier’s researcher and librarian-facing portfolio, including products like ScienceDirect and Scopus. Her and her team’s daily purpose is to help researchers deliver mission-critical insights and be...

Ryan Davies is a scholarly publishing professional with over eight years’ experience leading and managing academic journals across the physical sciences, engineering and technology. As Portfolio Manager at Academia.edu, he leads a team responsible for developing a growing list of open access titles.  Ryan has previously held editorial roles at Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, and the Institution of Engineering...

Akila joined the Publishing Industry in September 2018 as an Associate Editor with BMC (part of Springer Nature), working with OA Journals within the BMC Series Journals Group. She then moved to manage a team of Editors at Scientific Reports (also part of Springer Nature) and helped establish their first editorial team in India.  After 8...

Harini Varadarajan is a Senior Manager – Peer Review Services at Taylor & Francis Group, with over a decade of experience in journals publishing. At T&F, she has managed the similarity check process for journals through 2022 and represented T&F on the Similarity Check Advisory Group. She currently manages reviewer selection services and expedited peer review services for T&F...

Kim Eggleton is Head of Peer Review and Research Integrity at Institute of Physics Publishing. With over 20 years of experience in academic publishing, she leads teams responsible for safeguarding research integrity, strengthening peer review, and improving publishing operations. Her work spans policy development, risk management, AI and emerging technologies, and organisational change. Kim has...

As Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Platforms, Hannah Heckner Swain is responsible for shaping and communicating the Silverchair Platform and ScholarOne Manuscripts product vision and roadmap. She also manages the Silverchair Universe trusted partner program, inclusive of both Silverchair Platform and ScholarOne partnerships, in addition to other key external partnerships she collaborates with clients...

Jessica Kowalski, Executive Vice President and General Manager for Research, Wiley Jessica Kowalski leads Wiley’s global research business at the intersection of technology, data, and research publishing. She brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling knowledge, data, and AI-driven businesses, with a track record of transforming legacy models into growth engines. Jessica...

Indira Sen (https://indiiigo.github.io/) is a Junior Faculty member at the University of Mannheim’s Business School. A computer scientist by training, her current research sits at the interdisciplinary intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Social Science. She investigates how AI systems such as Large Language Models are used by people in their daily lives...

Lynsey Haire is an independent scholarly publishing consultant specialising in peer review, research integrity operations and editorial processes. She works with publishers, societies and publishing service providers to improve workflows, operating models, technology and outsourced services. Before becoming a consultant, Lynsey spent 16 years at Taylor & Francis, where she began leading peer review teams...

Maria Kowalczuk is Research Integrity Auditor Manager at Frontiers. The Research Integrity Auditing team investigates large-scale cases of publication manipulation and develops processes and editorial policies to ensure that only high-quality, trustworthy research gets published. She brings over 20 years of experience in scholarly publishing, 15 of them in dedicated research integrity roles. Before joining...