After years working in HE colleges, Mathias moved into academic publishing in 2013, joining SAGE Publications. Since then he has worked in open access roles at Nature Publishing Group, Springer Nature, BMJ, Wiley and Hindawi with responsibility for helping to develop some of the world’s largest and leading open access journals (including Scientific Reports, Scientific Data and BMJ Open). He is currently Chief Journal Development & Marketing Officer at Hindawi, helping to ensure authors, Editors, reviewers and readers receive the best possible service and experience across Hindawi’s 230+ journals.
Throughout his career Mathias has been consistently involved in various elements of open science (primarily open access and open data) and also has a keen interest in metrics, author services and various other community-led initiatives.
Nanda Piersma is professor Responsible IT and is seconded to CWI as professor Urban Analytics until September 2021. She is affiliated with the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI).
Her professorship investigates how parties in the city can gain better insights into their data through data analysis, algorithms and business analytics. Also, she leads the responsible IT group that investigates how ICT systems should change to create trust in the systems in oder to support the digitalization of society.
Since January 2020 she is the science director of the HvA Expertise Centre Applied Artificial Intelligence.
Eric J. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D., joined the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and NEJM Group as Editor-in-Chief in September 2019, taking on the responsibility for oversight of all editorial content and policies.
Dr. Rubin is an Associate Physician specializing in infectious disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is a Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He serves on several scientific advisory boards to groups interested in infectious disease therapeutics.
Dr. Rubin has also previously served as the Associate Editor for Infectious Disease at the New England Journal of Medicine as well as an editor for several basic science journals including PLoS Pathogens, Tuberculosis, and mBio.
Dan O’Brien (he/him) is the Assistant Director of Publication Technologies at the American Chemical Society where he leads an international technology group that supports content publishing and business operations of ACS Publications Division.
During his tenure at ACS, Dan oversaw the transformation to XML-based publishing, followed by a fully automated journal page composition system, and an online proof editing service for use by ACS authors.
Prior to his 19 years at ACS, Dan survived the tech boom and Y2K as a technologist at WorldCom/CompuServe where he supported network services billing and ordering systems.
In his spare time, Dan enjoys traveling, cooking, reading, and long walks with his better half and their dog.
Barry grew up in Norwich, England, and whilst at Norwich School he represented the county of Norfolk in athletics. Barry went on to study Natural Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, taking Zoology in the final year. His first job in publishing was as a sales manager for UMI/Proquest covering the Middle East. He decided to move to Singapore in 1991, and worked for World Scientific and then APA Publications before being asked to run a book distribution business called Gower Asia Pacific. Since 1998 he has guided the growth of Taylor & Francis in the region as Managing Director of the Asia Pacific HQ, running offices in Sydney, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo and Seoul.
Soon after arriving in Singapore in 1991, Barry met his future wife, YT: she is a Malaysian and a zoology graduate of NUS, Singapore. They have two daughters, Sophie aged 24, and Charlotte aged 21: Sophie is a graduate of the University of Glasgow, and Charlotte is studying at the University of Bristol.
In September 2019 Barry was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London.
With over 15 years experience in the publishing industry, Sari Frances, Director of Content Protection Services develops and builds strategic visions to leverage new and existing technical solutions and established work approaches and to enforce online terms of service and acceptable usage policy for the vast library of Elsevier online products.
Sari’s responsibilities include collaboration with legal, IT security, IPR, and sales to address worldwide concerns about digital piracy and copyright infringement. Representing Elsevier in industry trade associations in anti-piracy efforts, Sari actively participates in initiatives to combat and remediate IP abuses.
In addition, she often speaks at industry conferences as a thought leader on digital piracy and is a certified Project Manager Professional.
Sonja Krane, Ph.D., is Senior Associate Publisher at the American Chemical Society. Following undergraduate and graduate studies in chemistry, as well as work experience as a medicinal chemist, Sonja joined the ACS Publications Division as Managing Editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
She currently manages a portfolio of thirteen journals and, in this role, she supports the strategic development of these titles and the implementation of editorial initiatives that enable the journals to excel in their fields. She has led efforts to launch new titles, including expansion of the ACS’s Environmental Science & Technology portfolio.
Sonja contributed to the overhaul of the journal licensing options in support of ACS Publications’ Open Science program, and she led the successful development and launch of several Artificial Intelligence-Assisted tools across the journal portfolio.
Juan has a Master of Library & Information Science from Buffalo University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Binghamton University. He is a subject librarian at Syracuse University who serves on the Library Discovery Team. As a member, he provides recommendations on security and enhancements for their discovery layer Summon. Before SU he was the Electronic Resources Librarian at SUNY Oswego managing access to e-resources. He has also served as the Systems Administrator for Binghamton University Libraries where he worked on developing EZproxy scripts to combat breaches from SCI-Hub users.
Juan has presented on digital security at Electronic Resources and Libraries conference and Charleston Library conference. He has also written about security in Computers in Libraries, “Protecting Content from Hackers: How One Institution Went from Most Hacked to Zero Breaches”
Daniel Ayala (@buddhake) is the Managing Partner for Secratic, a strategic information security and privacy consultancy focused on helping companies protect data and information, and be prepared before incidents happen.
Throughout his 25 year career, he has led security and privacy organisations in banking and financial services, pharmaceutical, information, higher education, research and library organisations around the world, and both writes and speaks regularly on the topics of security, privacy, data ethics, and compliance.
Susie Winter is Vice President External Communications at Springer Nature.
Susie joined Springer Nature from the Publishers Association, the trade association for the publishing industry in the UK where, as Director of Policy and Communications, she was responsible for developing and leading the PA’s work across the policy agenda as well as promoting the contribution made by the UK publishing industry at both a UK and European level.
Prior to that, she was the first Director General for the Alliance for Intellectual Property, working to ensure that the importance of IP rights to the UK economy is recognised. Having begun her career as a Press and Broadcasting Officer for the Liberal Democrat Party she then spent several years at communications consultancy Luther Pendragon.
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