Rachel Kirby

Rachel Kirby – Co-founder & Director of Operations

Since achieving a Masters degree in Computer Science and Innovation, Rachel has been intrigued with how visualisations can transform the way we engage with data.

As a co-founder at Graphium, Rachel leads on operational strategy as well as contributing with product and software development.

Sean Coutts

Sean Coutts – Co-founder & Director of Technology

Sean started off in Materials Engineering and after working in construction project management returned to university to complete a Masters in Computing. As a co-founder at Graphium, Sean leads on technical strategy for the company, ensuring the team is equipped to build innovative solutions for researchers.

Elizabeth Moylan

Elizabeth Moylan, Senior Manager, Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics

Elizabeth is a member of Wiley’s Research Integrity & Ethics Publishing team and Wiley’s Integrity in Publishing Group, providing support on research integrity and publishing ethics issues with a focus on complaints and larger investigations.

She is an Editorial Board Member for Research Integrity & Peer Review and is a member of the Management Board for The Embassy of Good Science that aims to support researchers in upholding and practicing the principles of research integrity.

Elizabeth was a member of COPE Council from 2016-2018 and completed her Ph.D. and post-doctoral training at the University of Oxford, UK. 

Yuri Vorontsov

Appetence offers System Integration, Software Development as well as implementation of free, open-source Tools.

Yuri is Head of Technology for Appetence. Customers are publishers, institutions, and funders, as well as OA Switchboard and STM association.

Ivo Verbeek

Ivo Verbeek is a Solution Provider in Publishing, focusing on Open Access publishing activities and the transition to Open Access.

Solutions include System Integration, Software Development as well as implementation of free, open source Tools.

Ivo is Director for Appetence. Customers are publishers, institutions, and funders, as well as OA Switchboard and STM association.

Romy Beard

Romy has been working in academic online publishing for 17 years.

In her role at ChronosHub, she works with publishers on helping them make the open-access publishing process easier for authors.

Sabina Alam

Dr. Sabina Alam is the Director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity at Taylor and Francis Group.

After a research career in neuroscience, Sabina moved into scientific and medical publishing in 2008, working on open-access journals as well as a variety of peer review and publishing models at BMC journals (Springer Nature) and later at F1000 Research.

Sabina joined Taylor and Francis in 2018, leading the Publishing Ethics and Integrity team on providing investigative support and expert guidance on editorial policies, publishing ethics, and research integrity.

Tijmen Altena

Tijmen graduated cum laude in innovation sciences in 2012 and directly started his entrepreneurial career in the Higher Education sector.

With Global Campus he aims to make it easier for people to find the right academic expert and in the team he’s responsible for all technical developments of the platform.

He is also active on the volleyball pitch!