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.
Dr. Laura Castillo-Page is the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In this role, she leads the development and implementation of an organization wide diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy and set of programs.
Prior to joining the Academies, Dr. Castillo-Page served as the Senior Director for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) where she led a portfolio of work to advance learning and workplace environments focused on achieving an inclusive culture.
Additionally, she led the development of the AAMC’s action plan on inclusion to equip medical schools, teaching hospitals, and health systems to become more inclusive, equitable organizations.
Dr. Castillo-Page has also worked at the American Institutes for Research and served on the faculty at the George Washington University.
She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in educational administration and policy studies as well as an M.A. in political science from the University at Albany, SUNY, and holds a B.A. in political science and Latin American studies from Fordham University.
Dr. Natasha McDonald is responsible for advancing the system of peer review at Canada’s largest scientific publisher to yield a more inclusive, transparent, and rigorous research output.
She is passionate about Open Science and is a proponent of challenging long-held narratives in scientific publishing that have led to the underrepresentation of researchers from a number of communities and regions.
Before moving into scholarly publishing, she held a career as a researcher in the field of marine biogeochemistry. She currently serves as a Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI) UN SDG Publishers Compact Fellow.
Kacy Redd is the Associate Vice President of Research & STEM Education at APLU, where her portfolio focuses on three core areas: advancing the impact of research, expanding the definition of meaningful faculty and staff contributions, and enhancing equity and quality in undergraduate STEM education. In her work, she collaborates with vice presidents of research at more than 250 public research universities to increase public access to research (NSF# 1939279, #1837847, and #1945938) and to build the research capacity at less-resourced institutions (NSF #2324469). She also leads APLU’s effort to modernize scholarship for the public good, generously funded by the Rita Allen Foundation, the Kavli Foundation, and the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation. To improve undergraduate STEM education, she established the Network of STEM Education Centers (NSF #1524832), now serving over 200 STEM Education Centers/Institutes/Programs at more than 160 institutions. Additionally, she co-leads the Backbone for the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance (#1834518 and #2041007), a strategic consortium uniting more than 180 2- and 4-year institutions and 40 national organizations with the ambitious goal of diversifying the professoriate. Kacy serves on numerous advisory boards, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education, and NASEM’s Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Scholarship. She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Columbia University, supported by an HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship, and her B.S. from the University of Southern Mississippi. Her ORCID iD is 0000-0002-2024-741X.
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