Sarah Elaine Eaton is an associate professor of education at the University of Calgary.
She is a COPE Council member and a member of the United 2 Act Working Group 3, dedicated to researching paper mills.
She researches academic and research misconduct, fraud, and corruption in higher education.
In a long, weird career specializing in metadata, ontologies and discovery, Juliane Schneider has worked in start-ups, industry, publishing and academia. She was the Metadata Librarian for Harvard Medical School and was Team Lead/Data Curator for Harvard Catalyst | Clinical and Translational Science Center. She has coordinated data contributions from 70+ grants dealing with Alzheimer’s Disease and mental disorders for Sage Bionetworks, and is currently working on large language models, data architecture and research infrastructure design at PNNL. Throughout her career, Juliane has seen metadata change from a limited set of descriptors manually attached to an item, to a powerful network of information controlling not only description but data behavior and semantically complex transactions.
Juliane held leadership roles in Special Libraries Association and the Research Data Alliance. She is a certified Carpentries Instructor and taught workshops on data management at libraries across North America and Ireland. She is currently participating in FAIR initiatives and is a member of GO FAIR-US and FAIRPoints.
Tracy Bergstrom is the program manager for collections and infrastructure in the Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums program at Ithaka S+R. In this role, she collaborates on a variety of projects that examine contemporary challenges relating to the management, access, and discovery of analog and digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums, and community organizations.
Prior to joining Ithaka S+R, Tracy served as the director for the specialized collection services program within the Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame. For many years she was also the curator of the Zahm Dante and early Italian imprints collection at the University of Notre Dame. Tracy holds a BA in art history/ Italian literature from Smith College, an MA in Archaeological Studies from Yale University, an MLS from Southern Connecticut State University, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in the history of Italian printing with the Warburg Institute.
Mr. Eric Amponsah Amoaful is one of the three Research4Life Country Connectors representing the Ghana Library Association. He is responsible for connecting and supporting academic and research institutions in the Southern Sector of Ghana.
He holds an MPhil in Information Studies, an MA in Distance Education and E-Learning, and a BA in Information Studies from the University of Ghana, Legon.
He consults as Head of Projects for Aniwa Systems, an information systems development firm. He has worked as a Distance Education Tutor in Information Studies in the School of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana, and an Assistant Librarian in the Balme Library. He has served in various leadership roles in the University of Ghana Library System, including, Head of the Electronic Resources Unit, Head of the Students’ Reference Library, Head of the Population and Social Science Library.
He has also served as a resource person for a number of training workshops on library support services, reference management tools, and ICT tools for research for various institutions including the Ghana Library Association, the Pan-African Doctoral Academy (PADA), the Information Training & Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA), the Ghana Library Authority, Elsevier Africa, the Ghana Institution of Engineers, among others.
Alan Schiffres is co-founder and Managing Director of Infolinx.
Before founding Infolinx, Alan spent over 40 years in financial services, including senior positions at Citicorp, Dean Witter, and American Express, where he served as Chief Credit Officer for the firm’s Gold/Platinum Card Division and consumer lending products.
In addition to his work in industry, Alan was Partner/Managing Director at Novantas Inc. where he led the consulting firm’s Consumer Risk Management and Advanced Analytics practices. He was also Managing Director at Portfolio Management Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in consumer credit risk management.
Throughout his career, Alan’s has been a leader in conceiving, developing and applying advanced data science and analytic solutions to support business decisions and set business policy. Through Infolinx Alan seeks to leverage and apply his decades of practical risk management experience to a new domain – academic publishing — and develop and deploy best-in-class solutions to address the challenges of publishing integrity.
Alan earned a ScB in Computer Science from Brown University and a MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Before joining Elsevier as a senior advisor, Dr. Ellis was vice president for research and graduate studies at the University of California Office of the President (UCOP), the position from which he retired in 2019.
In previous appointments, Dr. Ellis served as provost at City University of Hong Kong, vice chancellor for research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), director of the division of chemistry at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and Meloche-Bascom Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Jenny Crick works in the Integrity and Ethics team at Canadian Science Publishing.
She has a Master’s degree in plant genetics and worked in private research before coming to scientific publishing.
Mike Rossner is a consultant about image manipulation in biomedical research through his company Image Data Integrity, Inc.
Previously, he was the Managing Editor of The Journal of Cell Biology and the Executive Director of The Rockefeller University Press.
Greta Sharpe is a Research Integrity Specialist with the Springer Nature Research Integrity Group, focusing on image and data irregularities in published articles, and managing large-scale investigations.
Greta has a background in biophysics and neuroscience; she completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Warwick in 2018, where she stayed as a postdoctoral researcher until she moved into publishing in 2019.
Since joining the Springer Nature Research Integrity Group in 2021, Greta has been actively involved in improving image analysis workflows, implementing and developing necessary software, and scaling up research integrity investigations. She joined the STM Working Group on Image Alterations and Duplications in early 2023.
Agatha Mashindano is an Assistant Librarian at the University of Dodoma. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Library and Information Studies from Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College in 2011 and a Master of Library and Information Management from the Open University of Tanzania in 2019.
Agatha serves as the Coordinator of the Institutional Repository Unit and manages electronic resources services at the University of Dodoma Library. She is also a member of the Consortium of Tanzania University and Research Libraries (COTUL) E-resources committee from 2021 to 2024.
Agatha provides information literacy training for researchers and postgraduate students on information searching techniques, electronic resources (including Research4Life), ethics and fair use of information, and reference management using Mendeley software.
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