David Price

Dr. David Price is the Director of Insight and Analysis at IFPI.

He leads the Insight and Analysis team in studying the habits of music listeners, analysing the worldwide music landscape, providing data to support IFPI policy goals, and investigating music piracy.

Prior to joining IFPI as Head of Anti Piracy Research and Analysis in 2014, he founded and led the Piracy Consulting department at NetNames.

Sian Wilcox

Sian is a final year Ph.D. student at the University of Oxford, studying the effects of hibernation on sleep and behaviour.

She graduated from the University of Manchester in 2019 with a BSc in Pharmacology. During her Ph.D., Sian became interested in science communications after she began writing and editing for the Oxford Scientist Magazine.

She has subsequently volunteered as communications officer for the Cortex Club, a student-run neuroscience society, in addition to being involved in various outreach programmes with the goal of making science more accessible.

Cecilia Marshall

Cecilia Marshall has been working in academic publishing since joining Cambridge University Press as an Editorial Assistant in 2017. She is currently working for Frontiers as Publishing Strategy Lead – Impact, working to embed impact within the organisation and throughout the article and journal life cycle.

Cecilia is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion, is a member of the Frontiers DEI committee and the RSC Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing. She has been involved in mentoring for the last 2 years.

Further information about Cecilia can be found on her LinkedIn page.

Krishna K

Krishna K | Vice President, Business Development & Marketing

With a career spanning over 20 years, Krishna is responsible for the Publishing and Pharma Data Science business verticals at Molecular Connections (MC), a global data science organization.

Recognizing trends and patterns in Publishing and Life Science industry, ahead of industry peers – shaping the market for MC by uncovering customer needs, managing strategic key accounts, building high-impact business partnerships, and enabling MC to sustain continuous revenue growth is her primary responsibility.

Pascal Hetzscholdt

Pascal Hetzscholdt is WILEY’s Senior Director, Content Protection. WILEY is a global publisher of scientific research. Pascal is overseeing WILEY’s global Content Protection programs and is currently researching many aspects of AI-based technologies, while making a plea for Responsible AI and the need for ethics, transparency, explainability and legal compliance relevant to training data, functionality and model output.

Prior to joining WILEY, Pascal worked for Hollywood movie studios, their association, and their technology vendors while dealing with topics such as IP enforcement, cyber security and digital distribution. Pascal started his career working for the Dutch National Police as a Cybercrime Policy Adviser.

 

Annabelle Nwaokorie

I am an Irish doctoral candidate in Systems Biology Ireland, at University College Dublin. My discipline lies in the field of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in Cancer Research.

In 2019, I graduated with first-class honours from the MSc in Medical Physics at the University of Ireland, Galway. In 2017, I graduated with first-class honours from the BSc Physics with Medical Physics and Bioengineering from Dublin Institute of Technology and was awarded the overall highest result in the programme, which resulted in a scholarship for my MSc in medical physics.

I am a science communicator and content creator, I share my honest day-to-day realities of doing a PhD, especially highlighting the positives to inspire people along the way. To show people, you can enjoy doing a PhD. 

Francesca Cockshull

Francesca is a Society Partnership Lead working in the Production and Content Operations team at Oxford University Press, and is responsible for looking after relationships with key society clients, operational efficiency projects, bids, and contract renewals, peer review, and communication.

Prior to this, she has held journals editorial roles at OUP, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley and also as Head of Publishing for the British Society for Rheumatology.

Marc Schindelholz

Marc Schindelholz is the head of Strategy, Innovation & Ventures and a member of the Management Team at Karger Publishers, a worldwide publisher of scientific and medical content based in Basel, Switzerland.

He reports to Daniel Ebneter who is the CEO of Karger publishers. Prior to joining Karger, he was responsible for “key customers” as an advertising specialist for the largest newspaper print-advertising agency in Switzerland.

Atreyi Chakrabarty

Atreyi is a final-year DPhil student on the BBSRC Interdisciplinary Bioscience programme at the University of Oxford, studying the cellular and network mechanisms of sleep regulation in the brain.

She enjoys communicating science within and beyond the scientific community and has been Editor-in-chief of The Oxford Scientist magazine.

She is passionate about promoting equality and representation for underrepresented groups of people in STEM and has been involved in setting up the University of Oxford’s BIPOC STEM Network.