STM People

Heather Staines is Senior Consultant at Delta Think and Director of Community Engagement for the Data & Analytics Tool. She also serves as Outreach Manager for GetFTR and SeamlessAccess. Her prior roles include Head of Partnerships for the MIT Knowledge Futures Group, Director of Business Development at Hypothesis, as well as positions at Proquest, SIPX (formerly...

Joyce Li is Journal Development Manager with BioMed Central, based in Beijing. She is responsible for growing the BioMed Central portfolio of Open Access journals originating from China, including new start ups, society journals and journals transferring to BioMed Central. She also plays a key role in promoting these journals and other aspects of journal...

Sarah Fricker is the Senior Group Legal Adviser for the Institute of Physics group with responsibility for providing legal advice and support to group companies based around the world, including the US, China, Japan and mainland Europe.  Her team works on all areas of legal work including copyright, commercial and licences.  Before joining the Institute...

Laura Wilson is Head of Research Integrity & Ethics at Taylor and Francis. Laura joined the publishing world in 2010, and has served as a council member on the Committee on Publication Ethics, as well as the Early Career Publisher member of the STM board. Laura is currently a member of the ALPSP policy committee.”

Jignesh Bhate is a technology entrepreneur and Founder of Molecular Connections, which he has grown from a niche text-mining startup into a global technology partner for the scholarly publishing industry. With over 25 years of big data experience, Molecular Connections  has helped publishers not just adopt – but operationalize – AI at scale across their workflows.MC...

Sara Zimmerman is Director, Product Management for the JAMA Network. Ms. Zimmerman joined JAMA Network after serving in platform management roles at Radiological Society of North American, Atypon, and the University of Chicago Press. During her time at the Press, she was part of the team that made The Astrophysical Journal one of the first journals...

Chris Graf is the Research Integrity Director at Springer Nature, in charge of leading the continued development and implementation of Springer Nature’s research integrity strategy, leading a team accountable for assuring the highest standards for research integrity in all of Springer Nature’s publications, working with many good colleagues inside Springer Nature and with many good...

Mark  Robertson advises STM as an independent consultant. Based in Australia, he consults on research and educational publishing across Asia Pacific. He was previously a member of the STM Board and is an active member of the STM Japan chapter.  Formerly Executive Director for Wiley in Australia and Japan and Vice President and Director of...

Jack Ochs, American Chemical Society (Chair)

Dr. Guido F. Herrmann joined Wiley in April 2017. Guido is responsible as Managing Director for Wiley’s entities in Germany and is Wiley’s Head of Global Industry, Partner and Academic Relations. Guido joined Wiley from Georg Thieme Verlag in Germany, where he served as managing director for 20 years. Prior to his current role Guido...