STM People

Sarah Phibbs serves as STM’s Consultant for Equity & Inclusion, working to foster global research equity by enabling reciprocal, diverse, and rich scholarly exchange. Sarah also works as a consultant for societies and publishers focusing on sustainable publishing, strategy, and innovation. Sarah facilitated the development of Research4Life’s new Strategic Plan and Theory of Change having...

Lei Shi is currently the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Tsinghua University Press(TUP), and the Director of both the Journal Publishing Center and Academic Publishing Center of TUP. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology). He has been the Standing Board Member of the China Periodicals Association since 2018. Lei...

Dr. Nandita Quaderi is a Senior Vice President and the Editor-in-Chief for Web of Science at Clarivate. Nandita has oversight of the Web of Science editorial division, the Institute for Scientific Information and the Research Professional News team. She has overall responsibility for editorial strategy, selection of Web of Science content and inclusion in Journal...

Priya joined Springer Nature in August 2026 as Vice President for Research Ecosystem Initiatives, a new role. Her immediate priority is to take over ownership of three pan-publisher ‘trust’ initiatives: (1) Journal Trust Markers, (2) TRACE (AI provenance and measurement), and (3) Peer review recognition. Previously, Priya was Vice President for External Affairs and Policy...

Ella Colvin is Director of Publishing, Journals at Cambridge University Press & Assessment responsible for the editorial programme across STEM, Humanities and Social Science journals. She is a member of the Academic Board, and of the Academic Publishing Committee of the Press Syndicate that has oversight of the quality, development and performance of the academic...

Steven Heffner is currently the Managing Director, Publications, and Chief Publishing Officer for IEEE Publications, where he is responsible for the general operations and commercial performance of the Institute’s portfolio of 200 learned journals, 50 society magazines (including IEEE Spectrum), and the IEEE Press book imprint. Steven and the publications leadership team work with IEEE’s volunteers...

Robert M Harington D.Phil is the Chief Publishing Officer at the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Robert has the overall responsibility for publishing at the AMS, including books, journals and electronic products. Robert is a “Chef” for The Scholarly Kitchen Blog. Robert has worked in non-profit and commercial settings, internationally, with particular experience across the United...

Miriam Maus is Chief Publishing Officer at IOP Publishing (IOPP), one of the world’s leading learned society publishers. Miriam is responsible for the creation and delivery of the organisation’s publishing and researcher engagement strategy. She is a member of IOPP’s Board of Directors. IOPP’s product portfolio encompasses 110+ open access and hybrid journals, books series, many...

Dr. Paul-André Genest is an Assistant Director and Publisher at the American Chemical Society where he is responsible for the management of roughly a third of the ACS journals portfolio and Editorial Development team. Since 2016, he is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he co-teaches a yearly course on scholarly communication (BIOS 292:...

Kayla Dos Santos is a Senior Acquisitions Editor at Elsevier and has been responsible for the Electronic. Magnetic and Optical Materials Science & Engineering books portfolio for the past 6 years. She began her career in publishing 11 years ago as an Editorial Assistant at the health science textbook publisher Jones & Bartlett Learning. At...