STM People

Apoorva Shah is Vice President of Product Management and UX at Wiley, where he leads strategic initiatives to enhance product value and drive innovation across the company’s publishing and solutions portfolio. Shah spearheads Wiley’s platform that enables scholarly content discovery through AI tools while maintaining academic integrity and proper attribution standards. Shah has established strategic...

With more than twenty-five years of experience in scholarly communications and association management, Lori Carlin is a recognized expert in business strategy, customer and market insight, and change management. Lori is currently the Chief Commercial Officer at Delta Think, a consultancy focused on strategy, and has also held senior positions for a number of scholarly...

Dr Fulu (Olufolake) Akinduro-Aje is a Research Integrity Manager within the Publishing Ethics and Integrity Team at Taylor and Francis Group, Journals, where she provides investigative support and advice on research ethics and integrity cases, and contributes to the continuous improvement of editorial processes and policies.

Dr Anne Taylor is Associate Director, Funding Operations and Governance at Wellcome based in the UK. Wellcome is a global charitable foundation that works towards everyone benefitting from science’s potential to improve health and save lives. This is achieved by funding discovery research over a broad range of disciplines – including social sciences and the humanities –...

Bert Seghers (°1988), a mathematician by training, coordinates the Flemish Commission for Research Integrity (VCWI) since 2014, the second-advice body for investigations of research misconduct in Dutch-speaking Belgium. In that capacity, he is a member of ENRIO, the European Network of Research Integrity Offices, of which he is President since May 2025. In the last decade, he...

Sonja is Head of Division “Research Culture”, German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | DFG). Before that, she served as Deputy Head of Division “Quality and Programme Management”. Her focus is on the promotion of equity, diversity, and inclusion, sustainability in research processes, research assessment and safeguarding research integrity. From 2012 to 2015 she was Deputy...

Freddie Taylor – Editor (Internal), IOP Publishing Mr. Freddie Taylor has worked with IOP Publishing for 7 years. He began as an Associate Editor before progressing to the role of Editor. He now heads an in-house journal team that processes newly submitted manuscripts and coordinates the peer review process across four journals. In his time...

Jo Cox is Legal Director at Springer Nature Group. After training in a top City law firm in London, Jo moved in-house 12 years ago and joined Springer Nature in August 2019.  She has advised across the Springer Nature Group portfolio of books and journals—including Nature, Springer, BMC, Palgrave Macmillan, and Discover—on legal aspects of...

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...