STM People

Carmen is an innovator who views the world through the lens of possibilities and progress. With a unique blend of technical and creative expertise as both an engineer and a musician, she constantly explores the systems around her to find efficient and original ways to advance them. Since 2015, Carmen has gained extensive experience in...

Deirdre Black is Head of Science and the Sustainability Strategy Lead at the Royal Society of Chemistry.  Her role includes using insights on global trends in science to inform strategy and develop programmes.  She has variously led the RSC’s policy, scientific programmes and international engagement teams. Exploring the interfaces between science, digitisation and the UN...

Neil has extensive interests in sustainable digital scholarship supported by open, pragmatic systems and standards. He is a co-creator of the International Image Interoperability Framework and the Oxford Common File Layout, community lead for the SWORD protocol, and contributed to the ePub/A specification recently submitted to ISO. Neil also teaches and does research in the Digital...

Wiebke Krasting is the Senior Vice President of Data Engineering at Elsevier, where she leads a technology organization responsible for extracting, linking, enriching, and curating high-quality research data, including Scopus Author Profiles. Wiebke has spent the majority of her career as an engineer and architect, later transitioning into leadership positions across various companies. She has...

Debora Comparin is Standardization Expert at Thales Digital Identity & Security, founder and chair of the OSIA Initiative, co-founder of SIDI Hub and Advisory Board member of the Linux Foundation Europe. She is a strong advocate for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.9 ‘Identity for all by 2030’ and in 2019 founded the...

Seán O’Connor’s (they/them) research and practice focus on intellectual property and business law for commercializing innovation in technology and arts. Professor O’Connor received their law degree from Stanford Law School, a master’s degree in philosophy from Arizona State University, and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Before graduate school they were...

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...