Mike Rossner

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

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

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.

Igor Grossmann

Igor Grossmann is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he leads the Wisdom and Culture Lab. As a cognitive/social scientist, Grossmann has been working on demystifying what makes up a “wise” judgment in the context of revolving societal and cultural changes. His chief work aims to uncover misconceptions about wisdom and societal change and to identify cultural and psychological processes that enable people to think and act wisely.

Grossmann’s work has been published in such outlets as Science, Nature Human Behaviour, Science Advances, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Proceedings of the Royal Academy: Biological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His contributions have been recognized through numerous awards (e.g., Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Foundation, SAGE Young Scholar Award from Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science).

Professor Grossmann is an elected member of the College of New Scholars, Scientists and Artists at the Royal Society of Canada. He has been an Associate Editor of Emotion, an Associate Editor of Social Psychological and Personality Science, is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Inquiry, and co-hosts the “On Wisdom Podcast,” aiming to disseminate scientific insights from cognitive and social sciences to the broad academic audience and the general public. Professor Grossmann holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan.

Richard Bruce Lamptey

Richard is the Deputy Library at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi- Ghana.

He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of South Africa (South Africa), a Master of Philosophy in Science and Technology Studies from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, a Master of Information Services Management from London Metropolitan University (United Kingdom) and Diploma from University Ghana, Legon, Ghana. He has a full information Science background.

He is knowledgeable in digital Libraries, Data Curation, Digital Repositories and Information Management, and Open Access / Open Data issues. Very much results-driven, go-getter, follow transformational leadership principles. He provides advanced training for both Lecturers and Students and supports raising awareness of library resources in KNUST. (Literature Search, Avoiding predatory journal publishing, Digital Literacy, Plagiarism, Institutional Repositories, Open Access and Open Science)

He is the Research4Life Country Connector for Ghana and the Associate Editor for the Ghana Library Journal. He is also a reviewer of several international journals.

Michelle Fleetwood

Michelle Fleetwood, PhD (she/her) is the Publishing Integrity Manager within the American Chemical Society’s Publication Division.

She focuses on strategy, policies and activities to support publishing integrity across the ACS journals portfolio, while embedding ACS’ core value of diversity, equity, inclusion and respect (DEIR) in the peer review and publishing processes.

Meagan Phelan

Meagan is the Communications Director for the Science family of journals, where she oversees efforts to boost visibility of forthcoming journal content for reporters worldwide. She also leads work to highlight updates to journal policy that respond to changing needs and standards of the scientific community. Meagan began at AAAS in 2013, as the director of the Science Press Package team. Prior to joining AAAS, she served as a senior writer at AIR Worldwide, where she interacted with more than 65 Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers to communicate advances in wind engineering, seismology, climate science, and other fields. Previously, she was a senior writer and editor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Meagan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Spanish from Gettysburg College, and a Master’s degree in Science Writing from The Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, Meagan received a Fulbright Scholarship to work with Dr. Juan Antonio Raga at the University of Valencia to help determine the cause of morbillivirus resurgence among small cetaceans in the Mediterranean. Meagan also completed science-reporting internships with Science as well as National Public Radio and has freelanced for various outlets including Anesthesiology News.

Jayne Marks

Jayne has over 40 years of experience in scholarly publishing She worked for Nature Publishing Group as Publishing Director, before moving to the US working for SAGE Publishing as VP Journals.  Here she helped to expand their journal portfolio and introduce open access journals to the group.  Jayne then moved to Wolters Kluwer Health Learning, Research and Practice, overseeing a broad portfolio of journals, working with medical society partners and introducing new product options to help diversify traditional revenue streams. She left Wolters Kluwer in 2021 to become a consultant and has worked for Maverick since then. 

Jayne served on the Board of the STM Association for a number of years: Oct 2008 – Oct 2010 and Oct 2013 – Oct 2015. She has also served on the board of IPRO and on the finance committee of Research4Life.  Jayne has been a regular speaker at industry conferences during her career. 

Simon Knowles

Simon established and now leads the UCL Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Initiative, which seeks to maximise the impact of UCL’s activity on the SDGs, from its teaching and research to its students’ extra-curricular endeavours and the way the university operates.

Previously, he headed marketing and communications teams for several organisation, including charities and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA). The ODA was responsible for the construction of the venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 Games.

He has a BA in Geography from UCL.

Alison Hope

Alison Hope is the Regional Manager for Northern Europe at Karger.

With considerable experience of driving commercial growth for content providers and publishers, her focus during the past 20 years has been academic publishing and the European library market. She has a consistent track record of building sustainable commercial relationships and of successfully negotiating national licenses and consortia agreements.

Based in London, she regularly travels throughout Europe.