Following graduation from the National University of Galway, Ireland, Catriona Fennell joined Elsevier in 1999.
She later had the opportunity to learn about the intricacies of peer review from hundreds of editors during the first implementation of editorial systems. Since then, she has worked in various management roles, and as Director of Publishing Services, she is now responsible for STM Journals’ research integrity and reproducibility programs.
Naomi Lee is a Senior Executive Editor at The Lancet. She heads the research section of the journal, and handles peer review and commissioning across a broad range of subjects including her specialist areas of surgery, oncology, digital medicine/AI, and medical technology.
She is also a vice-chair for the ITU/WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health. Naomi joined The Lancet in 2014.
Previously she studied medicine at Cambridge University and King’s College London, before training in surgery, specialising in urology and working for almost 10 years in the UK.
She has completed fellowships in Argentina and Mexico. She has also studied data science at University College London.
Dr. Magdalena Skipper is Editor in Chief of Nature and Chief Editorial Advisor for the Nature portfolio.
A geneticist by training, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has considerable editorial and publishing experience, having worked as Chief Editor of Nature Reviews Genetics, Senior Editor for genetics and genomics at Nature, and Editor in Chief of Nature Communications.
She is passionate about mentorship, research integrity, as well as collaboration and inclusion in research. As part of her desire to promote underrepresented groups in research, in 2018 she co-launched the Nature Research Inspiring Science Award for women early-career researchers.
Dragos Tudorache is a Member of the European Parliament (Renew Europe) and the Executive President of the PLUS party in Romania. He is the Chair of the European Parliament’s AIDA (Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age) special committee.
Apart from AI and new technologies, his current interests include the Republic of Moldova, internal affairs, security, and transatlantic issues.
He started his career as a judge and then moved on to work for the OSCE and UN missions in Kosovo. Subsequently, he joined the Commission Representation in Romania, supporting the country’s EU ascension, before entering the European Commission. There, he worked on migration dossiers and led the coordination and strategy Unit during the 2015 crisis. He then joined the Government led by Dacian Ciolos in Romania, where he was Head of the Prime Minister’s Chancellery, Minister of Communications and for the Digital Society, and Minister of Interior.
Sowmya steers editorial policy development, including policies and initiatives that advance transparency, integrity, open research practices and inclusion in scholarly publishing.
She represents Nature and Springer Nature on multiple community and industry forums and collaborations, and most recently been involved in the development of The MDAR Framework, aligned minimum standards for transparent reporting and open research practices in the life sciences.
Sowmya is the Chair of Springer Nature’s Research Publishing DEI Programme and a member of the Springer Nature DEI Council. She is a strong advocate of working in coalition with diverse stakeholders across the research ecosystem toward solutions that benefit the research community.
Teodoro Pulvirenti, PhD
Assistant Director, Publishing Integrity and Partner Services, ACS Publications.
Teodoro (Teo) oversees the ACS Publishing Integrity Office, which comprises Publication Ethics, DEIR Initiatives and Research Data Policies. In collaboration with leaders across ACS Publications, Teo is also responsible to spearhead the development of ACS global partner publishing operational strategy, and directly oversees the development and launch of new editor-focused products and communications tools.
Before joining ACS Publications in 2021, Teo was the Director of Editorial Development and Executive Editor of Journal of Experimental Medicine at Rockefeller University Press.
Bernd Pulverer, Ph.D. Chief Editor | EMBO Reports
Head | Scientific Publications
Following undergraduate studies in Cambridge, Bernd received his PhD in 1992 from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London.
He carried out postdoctoral research at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle and at the University of Innsbruck. Bernd was associate and then senior editor at Nature from 1999 until 2002 and subsequently chief editor of Nature Cell Biology.
Prior to his editorship of EMBO Reports, Bernd had been the chief editor of The EMBO Journal for a decade. He is also Head of Scientific Publications at EMBO.
Bernd Pulverer was a co-founder of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and serves on its Steering Committee.
He is a member of the advisory boards of bioRxiv, Review Commons, ASM publications, and a member of the STM Image Integrity Working Group. He is a founding director of the journal Life Science Alliance, co-published by EMBO Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Andrew Smeall is a Senior Director in Wiley’s Open Research team. He joined Wiley as part of the acquisition of Hindawi, a publisher of open access STM journals. Andrew spent 8 years at Hindawi, in various strategic and technical leadership roles. As Chief Product Officer, he led development of Hindawi’s Phenom platform, a free and open source software suite for publishing open access journals.
Rose is responsible for researcher-focused products at Elsevier, among which Mendeley, a reference manager to help organize research and collaborate, and ScienceDirect, a leading platform of peer-reviewed scientific literature.
Together with a team of product, technology, UX, analytics, and data science professionals, Rose strives to help researchers make the most of the little time they have available by offering advanced platform functionality that makes discovering, evaluating, understanding, and organizing scientific literature significantly easier and faster.
Rose has been with Elsevier for over 17 years, and has previously worked in publishing and strategy.
Tory Cenaj is the Founder and Publisher of Partners in Digital Health (PDH), a publishing and communications company in the area of new healthcare technologies, such as blockchain and tele healthcare. Tory has broad experience in all facets of healthcare publishing and communications with industry experience in clinical trials management and medical education. She currently serves as executive advisor to the IEEE SA in telehealth and DCT verticals.
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