STM People

Prabu Desikan, currently the Regional Director (South Asia) for IOP Publishing, has extensive global experience working in Sales & Business Development roles with leading publishers like Proquest/Bowker, Wiley etc. An Engineer by background, and an MBA, his work has enabled him to work with libraries in the US, Canada, Middle East, and India, for over...

Leila Jones serves as STM’s Chief Operating Officer — providing operational leadership and cross-functional coordination across STM. She plays a key role in driving progress on strategic programmes and ensuring the seamless execution of STM’s activities. Leila has been an integral part of STM as the Director of Strategic Programmes, where she facilitated the delivery...

Dr. Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Perugia (Italy) with a background in international economics. However, she later shifted her research focus to corruption in higher education, academic misconduct, plagiarism, paper mills, and predatory and hijacked journals. Her research not only involves...

Amanda Sulicz is the Associate Program Manager, Publishing Ethics at IEEE. In this role, Amanda is responsible for upholding the integrity of the scholarly record by assisting with investigations and working with IEEE’s volunteers to resolve ethics and plagiarism allegations. Prior to joining IEEE in 2023, Amanda started her publishing career in 2019 at AIP...

Jo has worked in environmental sustainability for over 20yrs, joining Sage in Feb 2023 to lead the development and implementation of their global sustainability strategy and net zero roadmap. Jo started her career at a UK government funded organisation leading large UK-wide energy efficiency and renewable projects before moving to a variety of positions, including...

Dr. Ralf Schimmer is Wiley’s Senior Director of Government Partnerships and Public Policy. In this role, he works with a range of stakeholders to inform policy and direction in Wiley’s transition to open access, leads strategy workshops with partners and customers, runs thought leadership events from Wiley’s Innovation Lab in Berlin, and supports Wiley in...

Liz joined IOP Publishing in 1995 as a Desk Editor and has worked up to her current role. Liz is responsible for the production teams, based in the UK and the US, handling IOP Publishing’s journals, books, and conference proceedings. As such, she is responsible for the development and implementation of sustainable, effective, and high-quality...

Laura Hassink is Managing Director for STM Journals. In that capacity she is responsible for Elsevier’s portfolio of 2,750 journals managed by more than 30,000 editors, who collectively publish more than 600,000 research articles a year. She leads a team of over 1350 people worldwide. Laura has a genuine passion for understanding the needs of...

Aaron is Head of Product and Content Management for the American Psychological Association, a role he has held since 2016. He started his career in journals publishing at the Russian Academy of Sciences before moving to federal government and academic research library positions in Canada. Most recently, he led ebook, ecommerce, and metadata platforms and...

Daniel Acuna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Founder of ReviewerZero AI https://www.reviewerzero.ai He has created tools to improve literature search, peer review, and detect scientific fraud. He has been funded by NSF, ORI (DDHS), Sloan Foundation, and DARPA. In 2021, he organized the Computational...