Samantha is the Content Lead at bioRxiv and Co-founder of PREreview.org, an initiative to help increase preprint awareness and community review by engaging scientists in preprint journal club discussions
. Formerly an early career researcher herself, Samantha hopes to empower ECRs by providing the peer review training and acknowledgement that will support them throughout their scientific careers.
Since 2015, Ginny has been developing a new team at Crossref encompassing outreach and education, user experience and support, and metadata strategy.
Before joining Crossref, she ran Ardent Marketing for a decade, where she consulted within scholarly communications on multichannel awareness and growth strategies, branding and launching online products, and building engaged communities.
She previously led Elsevier’s launch of Scopus, where she established content selection criteria, advisory boards, and outreach programs with library and scientific communities.
Most recently she founded the Metadata 2020 collaboration to advocate for richer, connected, reusable and open metadata for the benefit of society.
She’s lived and worked in many parts of the world, has managed globally dispersed creative, technical, and commercial teams, and co-hosts the Scholarly Social networking events in London, UK.
Nikul is a Publisher at Oxford University Press, looking after the fully Open Access journal programme.
He has also worked in editorial at Taylor & Francis and as a Digital Content Controller at OUP.
Nikul studied English literature at the University Plymouth (BA Hons) before completing an MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University
Julianne Nyhan (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/information-studies/julianne-nyhan; @juliannenyhan) is associate Professor of Digital Information Studies in the Department of Information Studies, UCL, where she leads the Digital Humanities MA/MSc programme. Nyhan is also the Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh) and on the Leadership group of the UCL Centre for Critical Heritage (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/critical-heritage-studies).
She has published widely on Digital Humanities, most recently (with Andrew Flinn) the open access Computation and the Humanities: towards an oral history of Digital Humanities (https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319201696).
Her research projects include a Leverhulme-funded collaboration with the British Museum on the manuscript catalogues of Sir Hans Sloane (https://tinyurl.com/y7zvrthm); an ESRC-funded historical newspaper data mining project (http://oceanicexchanges.org/); and a Marie Curie action ‘Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe’ (http://cheurope-project.eu/).
Valeria Vitale is the Education Director of the Mellon funded project Pelagios Commons, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies in London. After her degree in Communication Science awarded by La Sapienza University in Rome, she worked for several years on the study and promotion of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, with major Italian cultural institutions. In 2012 she graduated with an MA in Digital Humanities at King’s College London, where she also completed her PhD on the use of Linked Open Data to document 3D visualisations of ancient cultural heritage. Her case study was the Temple of Isis in Pompeii, its variant restoration hypotheses and multiple cultural interpretations.
She has an extensive experience in teaching 3D tools and methods to humanists and showing how spatial technologies can enhance the study and understanding of the Past. Valeria has also collaborated with various digital projects that focus on ancient geography, including the Heritage gazetteer of Cyprus, i.Sicily, the Pleiades Gazetteer and the Heritage Gazetteer of Libya. She co-directed the CALCS (Cross-cultural AfterLife of Classical Sites) project in 2016 and is currently working on a gazetteer of the city of Rome.
Niamh is Chief Publishing Officer at PLOS where she leads the Publishing & Partnerships Team.
Her focus is on ensuring the PLOS portfolio has a strong value proposition and includes the broadest range of researcher voices, facilitating the co-creation of paths to Open Science that address the legacy of devaluing knowledge from particular groups or regions. This includes developing new business models to support Open Access and Open Science.
Prior to PLOS, Niamh was the Director of Publishing at the Biochemical Society/Portland Press and spent nine years at the Royal Society of Chemistry.
She holds a PhD in chemistry from the National University of Ireland (UCC).
Elisa is the Editor in Chief at Nature Communications (effective January 2019). She has worked in several editorial roles for three of the Nature journals, and more recently was the Head of Editorial Process and Data Analytics for all the Nature titles.
Prior to her editorial career, Elisa obtained a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge and worked as a post-doc at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.
Elisa contributes to initiatives within Nature Research to improve the diversity and inclusion of scholarly peer review.
James manages a team of product managers as well as the development of the journals and books product line (pubs.rsc.org).
He strives to create and deliver superior customer satisfaction while simultaneously providing long-term value.
He is focused on ensuring the company develops and delivers a range of digital services in line with a clear and effective strategy and optimising the product to realise business goals and maximise return on investment.
He recently rolled out new licences and Open Access article payment system to 42 journals.
James evangelises user first, encouraging the Royal Society of Chemistry to focus on the needs of its international researchers.
Yakov Chandy is the Managing Director of TNQ Technologies Limited, UK. TNQ is a company that has been providing content transformation services to, and developing software applications for scientific and academic publishers and authors, for 2 decades now.
In his role as Managing Director of TNQ, UK he heads the Business Development, Sales and Marketing functions. Their latest software application, RevView Central for Submission and Peer Review was released in the summer of 2018.
TNQ has focussed on applications that use HTML and browsers for content delivery, with widely-adopted products like Proof Central, Page Central and AuthorCafe.
Jim has been working in scholarly communications for ten years now. He has held a number of different positions at Emerald Publishing, starting out as a software engineer and then moving on to forge a career in data strategy.
He is now the Senior Product Manager for Data Services and spends most of his time working on new data driven products and features that deliver the information needed to help people in our community reach their goals. In 2018 he has also been volunteering as one of the project leads for the Metadata 2020 initiative.
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