STM People

Milan has over 25 years of managerial experience in international banking and business. After working for a reputable investment bank, Milan joined Springer, now Springer Nature, to become their head of M&A and Strategy and became the Managing Director of Key Curriculum (Berkeley, CA), Vision Care (Philadelphia, PA) and MacMillan (London, UK). Milan keeps the...

Emma is Director of Development at Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), a nonprofit working to strengthen adoption and investment in the open infrastructure that supports research and scholarship. She provides strategic coaching and advisory services to open infrastructure organizations on financial planning, business development, product-market fit, and organizational sustainability. She facilitates cross-sector dialogues to strengthen...

Ben is co-founder of Cassyni, a platform helping academics disseminate and discover scholarly research through seminars and video. He is also a Founding Investor at Scholarly Angels, a group of entrepreneurs backing the next generation of startups in the research and scholarly communications ecosystem. Prior to Cassyni, Ben co-founded Kopernio (acquired by Clarivate) and Newsflo...

Chair of the STM China Chapter, since 2024. Over 20 years in higher education and scholarly publishing, with a focus on A&I databases, bibliometrics, open science, and research integrity. Currently Regional Director, Asia‑Pacific at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET); previously with Cambridge University Press, Springer, and McGraw‑Hill.

Professor Rachael Gooberman-Hill is speaking as Co-chair of the UK Committee on Research Integrity, which is dedicated to strengthening the research system through promotion of rigour, transparency, openness, and other core principles of integrity. Throughout her research career, Rachael has led interdisciplinary work with a strong focus on health. Her work has included projects on...

Samantha Green is the Director of Product Marketing at Silverchair. She collaborates closely across teams to ensure that Silverchair’s products have the greatest possible impact and offer powerful solutions to clients and partners. She has worked in scholarly publishing for more than a decade, building a deep understanding of different stakeholder perspectives and priorities in...

Jane Smith is the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Programme Manager at the Institute of Physics (IOP), seconded to IOP Publishing as the Inclusion & Wellbeing Partner. Jane is an EDI professional with a wealth of experience in leading strategic EDI initiatives and providing expertise within Higher Education, professional bodies, scholarly publishing, and the charity...

Guillaume Cabanac is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toulouse, France. He holds a research chair at the Institut Universitaire de France titled “Decontamination of the scientific literature.” Cabanac develops the Problematic Paper Screener that contributes to the identification, reporting, and retraction of algorithmically generated and fraudulent papers. He is an investigator on the ERC...

René Aquarius is a biomedical scientist working at the Neurosurgery department of the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Besides his regular work, which focuses mainly on systematic reviews, as well as vivo, in vitro, and clinical research in the field of vascular neurosurgery, he has also been active as a so-called ‘science...

Reese Richardson is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Broadly, his research interests concern the formation of collective knowledge, maintaining the integrity of the scientific literature, and systematic studies of industrialized academic and scientific fraud. He earned his PhD...