After working in an academic library providing access services and supervising student workers for four years, AnaMaria pivoted to publishing. Since this move, she’s been working at De Gruyter, within their Publisher Partner Program. When AnaMaria started at De Gruyter in 2017, the Publisher Partner team only had one full-time member on the team; the Program has since grown to nine full-time employees, with a portfolio of over 35 presses. AnaMaria is responsible for supporting the integration, availability, and discoverability of these University Presses’ large portfolios, while also providing sales support to the North American library market.
In addition to AnaMaria’s work with these distribution services, she is also passionate about topics concerning diversity, equity, and inclusion in the publishing industry. At De Gruyter, AnaMaria helped bring to life an internal DEI committee, known as IDEAL (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Anti-Racism Lived). This volunteer committee includes members from both the home office in Germany as well as colleagues within the US, and members are always looking for ways to engage other regions, and underrepresented groups, as well. She served as Co-Chair of IDEAL for three years. Most recently, AnaMaria joined STM’s Social Responsibility’s Committee Task & Finish Group focused on EDI and is looking forward to collaborating with and learning from other members within the industry.
Jade’s interest in medical sciences kickstarted at the Royal Veterinary College where she studied Bioveterinary Science. From there, she volunteered at several London-based news outlets before travelling to Chengdu, China to complete a 3-month internship.
Within her publishing career she worked as a Commissioning Editor and Digital Editor. Her current role, Senior Editor of Oncology Central, has allowed her to continue her passion for furthering the reach of cancer research.
Jennifer is Executive Director of Dryad, the open data publishing platform and community committed to the sharing and reuse of all research data.
Since 2005, she has worked with scientists, funders, publishers, libraries, developers and others to accelerate discovery through transformations in research communication, research culture, and technological infrastructure.
Prior to Dryad, Jennifer was Head of Open Research Communication and founding Head of Marketing and Communications for eLife, a non-profit and research funder-backed initiative to transform science publishing, and Director of Programs and Operations for SPARC, where she helped advocate for open data and the introduction of the first U.S. public access policies.
She is former Chair of the Board of Directors for OASPA (the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association), a member of the Board of Directors for DataCite and Advisory Board for the Data Curation Network.
Jenny Stein is a Journal Manager at AIP Publishing and has been responsible for the The Journal of Chemical Physics and Applied Physics Letters since 2021.
Prior to her career in publishing she completed her Ph.D. in inorganic materials chemistry at the University of Washington (2018), followed by a year of postdoctoral work at the University of Pittsburgh. She served as Executive Co-Director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute 2019-2020 facilitating cross-institution research collaboration and supporting graduate student development involved in quantum research.
Laura Bolte has been working in publishing since joining J&J Editorial as a Production Assistant in 2017.
Prior to working in publishing, she was a Technical Writer and Communications Specialist at the NC Department of Revenue.
Since joining J&J, Laura has worked in a variety of production and editorial roles, starting out working in production for an Open Access journal, and then moving into editorial roles for society-owned journals. Laura is currently based in Asheville, North Carolina and serves as a Managing Editor.
Joanne is an Executive Publisher (Discover Journals) at Springer Nature in Singapore with experience in portfolio management, journal development, acquisitions, and new launches.
She was previously a Commissioning Editor at World Scientific Publishing. Prior to relocating to Singapore, Joanne was based in London and held commissioning and editorial administration roles at Springer Nature and the British Society for Rheumatology.
She graduated from Imperial College London with an MSc in Taxonomy and Biodiversity and from the University of Leeds with a BSc in Zoology.
Samantha has been with the IEEE for 10 years. Her expertise lies in peer review as well as author and Editor engagement.
In her latest role as the “Author Tools & Support Manager”, she puts her efforts into fostering positive, proactive author relations through the development and implementation of author tools and procedures intended to support and streamline submission and peer review processes.
Naamah Maundrell is the Editor-in-Chief of Bioanalysis Zone, a digital hub which is part of the Taylor & Francis Group.
She received her BSc degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Reading (UK). Naamah has worked on Bioanalysis Zone since 2016 focusing on the techniques and methods used for the detection and quantitative study of analytes.
In his current role, Jeff is focused on designing and delivering strategies to develop the APS publications portfolio, support the transition to open access, and ensure APS publications, products, and related services will meet the open research needs of researchers, institutions, funders, and other stakeholders going forward. In previous roles at APS he has overseen global sales and journals marketing, led the strategic planning and launches of new journals, contributed to public policy pertaining to publications, and participated in leading a number of Society-wide initiatives.
Prior to joining APS, Jeff was Senior Publisher for the Americas at IOP Publishing, where he was responsible for a portfolio of over 30 journals, oversaw the Editorial & Science Office in Washington DC and managed publishing teams based in both the US and UK. He was also responsible for developing and managing journal and ebook publishing partnerships with esteemed scientific societies including the American Astronomical Society, the Biophysical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Jeff earned a BS in Biology with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Richmond and his Master of Science in Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland.
David B. Berkowitz is Director of the Division of Chemistry at the National Science Foundation, where he oversees a staff of over 40 and an annual budget of approximately $260 M dedicated to funding fundamental science in chemistry that bears on many other disciplines and that is directed at training the next generation of scientists.
Berkowitz also co-chairs the Sustainable Chemistry Strategy Team at OSTP (Office of Science and Technology Policy) @ The White House. Berkowitz is also Willa Cather Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) where he leads an active research group engaged in science at the chemistry/biology interface.
His particular interests are in stereocontrolled synthesis, biocatalysis, the development and application of novel screening methodologies, and in the mechanistic study and inhibition of PLP-dependent enzymes.
Berkowitz is co-founder and co-lead of the Nebraska Drug Discovery and Development Pipeline (ND3P), a research superstructure designed to foster collaborative research between UNL in Lincoln and UNMC (University of Nebraska Medical Center) in Omaha.
David Berkowitz studied at the University of Chicago (B.S.-Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard/ETH-Zürich (Ph.D.) and Yale (PD). His honoraria include Visiting Professorships at the the Université de Paris (2016), the Max Planck Institute (Dortmund, Germany, 2006) and the Université de Rouen (Normandy, France, 2005). Berkowitz is a AAAS Fellow (2015), a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow (2008) and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1997). In 2018, Berkowitz chaired the international Gordon Research Conference on Biocatalysis. Berkowitz currently serves on the Chemical Sciences Roundtable at the National Academy of Sciences.
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