STM People

Dahlia Sokolov is the Democratic Policy Director of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. For a decade prior to that, she served as Staff Director for the Research & Technology Subcommittee, where she played a key role in developing and shepherding through the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, the National Artificial Intelligence...

Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.

Lauren Maggio, PhD, MS(LIS) is a Professor and the Director of Research in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Dr. Maggio holds a PhD in Health Professions Education (HPE) from the University Medical Center Utrecht. Dr. Maggio’s research aims to understand how health professionals and learners access, evaluate, and use information, including information generated by AI, in clinical and...

Rachel Burley has been a leader in the research communications and open science space for more than 20 years. She is currently the Chief Publications Officer for the American Physical Society, publisher of the Physical Review journals. Her background in business development and publishing has pushed leading-edge trends in scientific, technical, and medical publishing and...

Dr. Alexia Hudson-Ward is Dean of the Library and University Librarian at Georgetown University, where she is the chief administrative officer of one of the world’s leading research libraries. She is also President-Elect of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). Her multi-sector career spanning business, higher education, and the nonprofit sector informs her...

Cathy Holland is Director of Global Publisher Business Development at Digital Science, where she works with leading publishing organizations to implement technology that supports innovation in scholarly communication. In her role, she focuses on building partnerships around tools and data solutions that help publishers improve insights, workflows, and decision-making. Prior to Digital Science, she spent...

Melissa Junior serves as Chief Publishing Officer at the American Society for Microbiology. With a background in scientific publishing focused on society-based journals and open access transitions, she provides strategic, editorial, and commercial leadership for ASM’s portfolio of peer-reviewed journals and books. Under her leadership, ASM has launched new titles, built an editorial development team...

Tim Vines is the Founder and CEO at DataSeer. Prior to that he founded Axios Review, an independent peer review company that helped authors find journals that wanted their paper. He was the Managing Editor for the journal Molecular Ecology for eight years, where he led their adoption of data sharing and numerous other initiatives....

Jennifer Regala is the Senior Director, Publishing and Product Development, at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, where she oversees ACOG’s journals publishing program, product development, consumer books, and the patient education site. Most recently, Jennifer was the Associate Director, Publishing, at Wolters Kluwer Health, where she oversaw award-winning news magazine publications, including Oncology Times, Emergency...

Rachel Bock has worked at Wiley for more than 18 years. She began working in the Atypon team in 2022, where she leads product management for content and identity capabilities and works to ensure customers generate maximum value from all Atypon products and solutions. She currently represents Wiley on the STM Standards & Technology Committee....