STM People

Patrick Hargitt is the Senior Director of Product Management at Atypon, where he leads the Atypon Experience Platform. With a career in the software industry dating back to the mid-1990s, Patrick brings a wealth of experience in leading product development, building scalable platforms, and shaping technological strategies. Since joining Atypon in 2015, he has modernized...

Olivia Nippe is a Senior Publishing Ethics Expert working in Elsevier’s Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics (RI&PE) Centre of Expertise. Upon completion of her PhD in Life Sciences at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom in 2019, Olivia joined Elsevier as an Associate Scientific Editor, quickly developing a passion for research integrity, and joined the...

Kim is a COPE Council member and participates in many cross-functional working groups including the STM integrity hub. In 2023 Kim was selected as one of the inaugural “People of Publishing” by the Publishers Association and received the new ALPSP Impact Award 2023 on behalf of IOPP for their work combining double anonymous and transparent...

Alice Coles-Aldridge is a Senior Editor on the Publication Ethics team at PLOS. She leads several pre-publication and prevention work projects and manages pre- and post-publication ethics cases across the breadth of the PLOS journal portfolio. At PLOS, Alice works with journal teams, operations, subject matter experts, and PLOS’ communities to resolve integrity and ethics...

Catriona Leslie (2024) is a Research Integrity Auditor Manager at Frontiers. Her team specialises in large scale investigations across all of Frontiers journals and is responsible for maintaining high quality of publications with regards to ethical standards and research integrity. She has helped develop new checks and AI-powered tools for a robust quality triage as...

Dr. Jessica Sänger is Director for European and International Affairs at Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German publishers and booksellers association). She chairs the International Publishers Association’s Copyright Committee. Ms. Sänger joined Börsenverein in 2008 where she was Deputy Head of the Legal Department from 2011. She studied Law at Exeter and Mainz, and trained for...

Christopher England, PhD, serves as the Associate Publications Director for Program Development, Policy, and Ethics at the American Physiological Society (APS). In this role, Dr. England spearheads and executes special projects designed to advance and raise the profile of APS Publications. He is also responsible for overseeing the ethics office, which is dedicated to upholding...

Dr. Nick Wise is a researcher at Clare College, University of Cambridge, with a background in fluid dynamics and engineering. Since 2021 he has investigated research and publishing fraud, with his work resulting in the retraction of over one thousand papers to date.

Dorothy Bishop recently retired as Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, where she conducted full-time research, funded by Wellcome Trust and ERC. She is an honorary fellow of St John’s College Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences. She has published substantial...

Marilyn Catis drives author engagement for IEEE and has over 27 years of experience delivering new products and services in a professional association setting. Over the past 16 years, Marilyn has focused on mentoring and building new teams to address new business challenges. She spent seven years building two new revenue streams (certification and education) for the IEEE Communications Society. Marilyn has been in her...