STM People

Dr Sabuj Bhattacharyya is a Scientist and Research Ethics and Integrity Officer at Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (BRIC-inStem), Bengaluru, India, where he leads initiatives to promote responsible research practices, transparency, and publication integrity. He has an interdisciplinary background in wild biology, population genomics, and research ethics, with doctoral and postdoctoral training...

Suresh Kumar N.P. heads the Publishing Solutions and Transition team at Integra. Integra is a content services and technology company that works with academic, education and professional publishers worldwide. Its team of more than 3,000+ people supports journal and book production, peer review, accessibility, content development, and AI-enabled publishing tools. In his solutioning role, Suresh...

Alice Darlington is a Research Integrity Investigator working in Elsevier’s Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics (RI&PE) Centre of Expertise. Upon completion of her Master of Arts in History at the University of Manchester, Alice started working as an Assistant Editor and quickly developed a passion for research integrity. She then joined the RI&PE team in...

Patrick Starke is Co-Founder and CEO of Imagetwin, a leading platform that detects duplicated, manipulated, and AI-generated content in scientific publications. With a background in building and scaling tech startups, Patrick co-founded Imagetwin in 2022. Today, the platform is trusted by academic publishers, universities, and research institutions worldwide. Patrick works closely with editorial offices and...

Tiago Barros is co-founder of Signals, a startup combining networked data, expert knowledge and AI to evaluate the integrity and quality of research manuscripts and publications. Signals helps great research get published and rewarded, while stopping problematic work that erodes trust in the scholarly record. A biochemist by training, Tiago has spent his career building...

Dr. Matt Spick is a lecturer at the University of Surrey, UK, where he also earned his Ph.D. which applied analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry to biomarker identification. Following a 23-year career in investment banking assessing corporate incentives and performance, his research focus has shifted to research integrity and metascience. He specifically investigates how Generative...

Kathryn Weber-Boer (Director, Scientometrics – Scientometric Researcher Engagement at Digital Science), manages the Scientometric Researcher Access to Data (SRAD) program. She works with researchers using Altmetric and Dimensions data to better understand how science, policy, and innovation actually works. As a computational social scientist, Kathryn is dedicated to finding responsible ways to show the myriad...

Dustin Smith is Co-Founder & CEO of Hum, a six year old “startup” building the intelligence layer for publishers. A hands-on product builder and techno-optimist, he works closely with editors and publishing teams to put AI to practical use. He’s also a trail runner and proud girl dad, based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Ravi Venkataramani is the Chief Executive Officer of Kriyadocs. Kriyadocs is an ecosystem for scholarly publishers that manages publishing workflows end-to-end, from submission to review to delivery. With an ethos of bringing agility into publishing, Kriyadocs provides a comprehensive publishing platform and services to a global clientele of leading academic, professional, and scholarly publishers. Ravi...

Catriona Leslie is Research Integrity Auditing Manager at the open access publisher Frontiers. With a background in Philosophy, she moved into scientific publishing in 2020 and now specialises in large-scale pattern analysis and paper mill identification. She leads Frontiers’ internal Paper Mill Working Group, which identifies new trends in paper mill submissions and builds workflows...