Pavel is an artificial intelligence engineer, developer, and cardiologist. He spent ten years in hospitals treating patients and learning medicine and biology.
He led multiple scientific research projects while also learning about software and machine learning during his spare time.
He then decided to turn towards technology and founded alviss.ai to modernize the biomedical practice through artificial intelligence and science.
Jana was the first Image Data Integrity Analyst at EMBO Press, before she joined the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) in 2017. She oversees pre-publication assessment and post-publication corrections for the 4 journals at FEBS Press, with an increasing focus on paper mills. She also founded her own business Image-Integrity in 2015 and has been a regular consultant for The Royal Society for the last 5 years.
Jana has worked as an independent consultant and trainer for various publishers/journals including SpringerNature, eLife, Frontiers and the RSC.
She is the chair of the STM Image Alterations & Duplications Working Group, and recently produced a series of video tutorials on image integrity screening for the STM Integrity Hub.
Jana is based in Heidelberg, Germany.
Publications:
Systematic fabrication of scientific images revealed
First published: 26 July 2018 https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.13201
Digital magic, or the dark arts of the 21st century—how can journals and peer reviewers detect manuscripts and publications from paper mills?
First published: 17 February 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.13747
First published: 27 June 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/1873-3468.14143
Community-developed checklists for publishing images and image analyses
Carsten Borchert is co-founder and managing director of SciFlow, the online writing and publishing platform for research. Before SciFlow, Carsten worked in various positions in the IT-Industry, including Oracle and Bertelsmann. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, where he analyzed sales models of IT companies and their changes caused by M&A.
John is currently the Head of Information Technology and Collections at Coastal Carolina University. He has worked in academic library technology for over 30 years and is a former patent holder and co-founder of Journal Finder, the first OpenURL Resolver and knowledge base to go into production in the United States.
Throughout his career, John has focused on identifying and implementing innovative uses of technology in the provision of library services, online user privacy protection, and improving the user experience for accessing online resources.
He is an active member of the Coalition for Seamless Access.
Molly Stech is STM’s General Legal Counsel. Previously, Molly worked for the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s copyright policy team.
She has also been a consultant for WIPO and has been an adjunct professor of law at American University Washington College of Law and George Washington University Law School.
She has written and published a variety of law review articles on both intellectual property and cultural property issues in American and European law journals. She is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and completed a post-graduate legal fellowship in comparative copyright law at the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Ingrid Dillo is Deputy Director at DANS (Data Archiving and Networked Services) in the Netherlands. She holds a Ph.D. in history and has worked in the field of policy development for the last 30 years, including as Senior Policy Advisor at the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the National Library of the Netherlands (KB).
Among her areas of expertise are research data management and the certification of digital repositories. Ingrid is co-chair of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Council and a member of the Boards of Directors of CoreTrustSeal and DataCite.
Ingrid is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe project FAIR-IMPACT and a member of the EOSC Task Force on Long-term Data Preservation.
Pradeep Kumar is a Personal Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Wits’ Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology.
He has an experience of 14+ years in academic teaching and research in molecular pharmaceutics and bioengineering, with regenerative medicine for neurotrauma as the research focus. In addition, he performs in silico mathematical analysis and programming for performance interpretation of drug-eluting assemblies and polymer architectures.
Prof. Kumar, an active member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) and the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) proudly represents South Africa on the ORCID Researcher Advisory Council; OECD Global Science Forum’s Expert Group on the Research Precariat Project; Expert Group Member for the IAP Statement on Regenerative Medicine; Young Physician Leaders Program; and Faculty for Business Case Laboratory at the Life Science Entrepreneurship Academy (LISEAD), ESMT Berlin.
In South Africa, he is a Steering Committee member of the ASSAf Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) and leads the Research Portfolio in the Gauteng Department of Health’s Spinal Cord Injury Work Group.
Prof. Kumar is a recipient of several prestigious awards including the VC’s Innovation Award in 2021, Wits Health Consortium’s Great Leap Forward Entrepreneurial Academic Award (2021), ALBA-FKNE-YIBRO diversity grant (2020), INGSA-Africa Science Advice diploma (2020), Wits’ Friedel Sellschop Research Award (2019), ASRT Young African Researcher Award 2018 (Health and Pharmaceutical Sciences), Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans 2018 (Science and Technology), Claude Leon Foundation Merit Award (2018), and African-German Network of Excellence in Science Junior Researcher Grant (2018) funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
He has published over 300 papers in over 100 journals, reviewed over 800 manuscripts from 110 journals, and supervised 15 Ph.D. students to completion.
Jessica Polka, Ph.D. serves as Executive Director of ASAPbio, a researcher-driven nonprofit organization working to promote innovation and transparency in life sciences publishing in areas such as preprinting and open peer review.
Prior to this, she performed postdoctoral research in the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School following a Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from UCSF.
Jessica is also a Plan S Ambassador, an affiliate of the Knowledge Futures Group, and a steering committee member of Rescuing Biomedical Research.
Emeritus Professor Michael Barber AO, FAA, FTSE, is an internationally recognised applied mathematician and computational scientist, former vice-chancellor of Flinders University, and a former Senior Executive of CSIRO.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and has served as its Secretary, Science Policy, and Treasurer.
Currently, he is a member of the Steering Committee for the International Science Council’s project on the Future of Scientific Publishing.
He has particular interests in the role of data and strengthening research integrity. He was the lead author of the recent report by the Academy of Science on Advancing Data-Intensive Research.
Dr. Nicola Nugent is the Publishing Manager, Quality & Ethics at the Royal Society of Chemistry, where she is the strategic lead for quality and impact across journals and books.
She has responsibility for the journal’s peer review strategy, as well as publishing ethics, and inclusion & diversity in publishing.
Nicola leads the “Joint commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing”, bringing together over 50 publishing organisations to accelerate progress on I&D in scholarly publishing.
Nicola has over 15 years of experience in STM publishing in a variety of operational and strategic roles, with an editorial focus. She has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, UK.
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