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.
David Harvey, Prophy’s head of Research and Business Development, is a senior researcher at EPFL in Switzerland.
He did his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh and has worked at Kaggle in the USA and Terres des hommes in Geneva as a ML consultant.
Alexey Boyarsky, Prophy’s Managing Director, is Professor of Physics at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
An expert in information technology he has three decades of experience in the academic sphere.
Professor Oleg Ruchayskiy did his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago where he honed his physics and computer skills, now at the University of Copenhagen, he is a leader in particle physics, artificial intelligence, and semantic technology.
David S. Shawah has been working with iGroup Asia-Pacific for over 16 years as Director of Business Development.
Over this period he has worked closely with Scientific Publishers and Universities to ensure that the needs of both the Scientific Community and Content providers are being met. He has given numerous motivational talks on topics such as Content Acquisition and Leadership for Librarians.
Phil Garner has 23 years of STM publishing experience, working in leadership roles and across many functions, with a track record in developing and implementing change to improve productivity, growing top- and bottom-line results, and doing so whilst motivating and getting buy-in from staff.
Phil is Co-Founder & CEO of Becaris Publishing Limited, publisher of the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research and The Evidence Base. The company is currently in the process of a flip from a subscription/hybrid model to open access. Previous roles include CEO of the STM publisher Future Science Group (FSG), where, over 8.5 years, Phil led the business from being a company underpinned by subscriptions, to something much more varied, innovative, commercially successful, and engaging for authors and readers. This included the launch of FSG’s Read & Publish license in 2019 and the successful development and implementation of numerous new revenue streams to lessen the reliance on subscriptions. Prior to that, Phil spent a decade at Informa plc/Taylor & Francis in senior positions, including Divisional Managing Director of medical books and journals, and working on numerous acquisitions and integrations.
Phil is also a Non-Executive Director at Portland Press Limited, the publishing arm of the Biochemical Society, has Advisor roles with Delta Think and Collingwood Advisory, is a mentor with ALPSP, and a member of the ALPSP Training Committee.
Akila Sridhar is a Deputy Editor for Scientific Reports at Springer Nature.
She joined the publishing industry and Springer Nature as a Manuscript Editor for the BMC Series Journals in September 2018. She had over 11 years of academic research experience prior to the move to publishing with her most recent being an EMBO Post-doctoral Fellow in Portugal working on molecular and cell biological questions addressing cancer initiation and sustenance.
She has been part of two cohorts of the STM mentoring programme and is passionate about championing diversity, equity, and inclusion in publishing.
Sally Wilson, Publishing Director at Emerald Publishing, is an experienced publishing professional responsible for the strategic development of Emerald’s global publishing programme, comprising journals, books, and teaching cases with a commitment on real world impact; a focus on research aligned to the UN SDGs; innovation through non-traditional content types; and author experience. We collaborate closely with researchers, practitioners, and policy makers globally to help turn research outputs into policy and practice.
As a responsible business and signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact, Emerald believes that knowledge and learning can diminish divides and be an inclusive force for change. Emerald has established itself as an employer and partner known for a strong, inclusive, and respectful culture which is based on trust and transparency.
Sally represents Emerald on the working group of Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing and the SDG Publisher Compact Fellows.
Matt is a Research Integrity Manager at the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO), supporting the work of the charity including the advisory service and the development of policies and publications.
He has a BA (Hons) in Biological Science from Oxford and an MSc in Genetics from Cambridge. He worked in open-access science journal publishing for 18 years, developing expertise in peer review, critical appraisal, editorial policy, and publication ethics as an editor at BMC and PLOS and then heading the Research Integrity team at Hindawi.
He is a council member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and Treasurer of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE).
Jessica obtained her Ph.D. in organic supramolecular chemistry from Queen Mary University of London in 2015. This was followed by postdoctoral research at University College London (2015-2017) and the University of Oxford (2017-2021), with projects in medicinal and supramolecular chemistry respectively.
She joined the Tetrahedron team at Elsevier in 2021 as a scientific editor based in the Oxford (UK) office. She works on the Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry titles and is a founding and handling editor on the new gold open-access title Tetrahedron Chem, focused on synthetic organic chemistry.
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