Roxanne Muller is an experienced sales leader and partnership strategist with a proven track record of driving customer success and business growth. As Global Sales Manager at TrendMD, she specializes in scholarly publishing and content amplification, forging impactful collaborations that deliver measurable results. With extensive experience across global markets, Roxanne excels at developing innovative strategies to enhance visibility, engagement, and reach for clients. Her passion for building strong partnerships and driving meaningful outcomes positions her as a key player in the evolving landscape of digital content and academic publishing.

Sven Fund is the Managing Director of Reviewer Credits, the peer review expert network. Prior jobs include leadership positions at Bertelsmann, SpringerNature, De Gruyter, ResearchGate, and Wiley. He holds a degree in European Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Political Science from Muenster University. Through his company fullstopp, Sven invests in startups in publishing and beyond. He lectures in Library and Information Science at Humboldt University in Berlin. He frequently speaks at international conferences around the globe.

Dr Jeffrey Robens is Head of Community Engagement at Nature Portfolio and is the Lead Trainer for the Expert Trainer-led Nature Masterclasses—training workshops to improve publication output worldwide. He has strong scientific qualifications with 20 years of academic experience and numerous publications and awards. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and then worked at premier research institutes in Singapore and Japan. Since leaving academia in 2012, he has conducted over 650 academic training workshops worldwide to help researchers improve their publication quality and impact.

Roohi Ghosh is the ambassador for researcher success at Cactus Communications (CACTUS). She is passionate about advocating for researchers and amplifying their voices on a global stage. With over 17 years of experience in the field, she understands the unique challenges that researchers face and the importance of their work in advancing knowledge and improving society. Through strategic outreach and engagement efforts, she works to build bridges between researchers and other stakeholders in academia to foster productive partnerships that lead to greater success and impact for the research community. She co-chairs the Peer Review Week committee, ALPSP’s Open Peer Review Special Interest Group and the EASE India Chapter and serves on various other committees, including the Scholarly Kitchen Cabinet.

Dr. Mingfang Lu has been serving in the scholarly publishing industry for more than 20 years, with working for 16 years as the Editor-in-Chief China of IOP Publishing, IOP Fellow (FInstP), where he has made substantial growth in the quality research papers published by Chinese authors, and initiated major collaborations with leading Chinese physics journals and science and funding bodies including NSFC, MOST, CAST, CAS, CPS, Tsinghua University, and Peking University, etc. He is now the Executive President of AiScholar, supporting academic communications and publications via its AI-empowered online SaaS platform. Before this, Dr. Mingfang was a research professor in plasma physics since 1998, and obtained his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 1995. He once conducted postdoctoral research at IOPOFCAS, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), and served as a guest professor at Nihon University.

Noorhidawati Abdullah is a Professor and Head of the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Her research interests encompass Informetrics (including bibliometrics, scientometrics, and web analytics), and Digital Libraries (with a focus on tools, technologies, digital content, metadata, and usability) and scholarly communication. In addition to her academic roles, Noorhidawati serves as the Chief Editor of the Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science (MJLIS), which is indexed in Scopus, and Web of Science (WoS).

Jinjin LIU is an associate professor and the managing editor of the Journal of Acute Disease, Hainan Medical University Press. She holds a Ph.D. in journal marketing and branding management. Additionally, she earned an M.A. in intercultural communication and an M.Sc. in management. She is an active contributor to the academic publishing community. Since 2020, Dr. Liu has volunteered as an associate editor for the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and is a youth editorial board member for the Journal of Scholarly Communication. She is also a member of both the Youth Committee and the International Cooperation Committee of the Society of China University Journals. Her research interestes focuses on open access and journal marketing.

As Abstracting & Indexing Manager, Iga Serafin strengthens Sciendo’s journal portfolio by enhancing its visibility in leading academic indexes. With deep expertise in content evaluation, she assesses publications against the selection criteria of top databases and indexing platforms. She oversees collaboration and metadata dissemination across various services, ensuring broad exposure for academic publications. By guiding editors through the indexing process, she provides strategic advice to minimize rejection risks, optimise journal performance, and improve key metrics, including citations and rankings.

Alexandru Barbu is the Sales and Business Development Manager at Sciendo, leading global market expansion efforts with over a decade of experience in business development, marketing communications, and sales. Since 2016, he has played a key role in growing the Sciendo and Paradigm brands, driving strategic initiatives that enhance the dissemination of high-quality academic knowledge. With a strong focus on Southern Europe, the Balkans, and Romania, Alex specialises in building long-term partnerships and collaborates closely with clients and stakeholders to drive innovative publishing solutions.

Sven Fund is the Managing Director of Reviewer Credits, the peer review expert network. Prior jobs include leadership positions at Bertelsmann, SpringerNature, De Gruyter, ResearchGate, and Wiley. He holds a degree in European Studies from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Political Science from Muenster University. Through his company fullstopp, Sven invests in startups in publishing and beyond. He lectures in Library and Information Science at Humboldt University in Berlin. He frequently speaks at international conferences around the globe.

Martin Delahunty is the Founder and Director of Inspiring STEM Consulting, specializing in publishing strategy, business development, and training services for academic publishers, universities, pharmaceutical companies, and technology services. With over 30 years of experience in scientific and medical publishing, he has worked with leading organizations including Elsevier, Harcourt, Thomson Science, and Springer Nature, where he notably led the development of Nature Partner Journals. His expertise focuses on open science publishing principles and technological innovations in publishing workflows, including artificial intelligence applications. Martin holds a BA in Natural Sciences and an MBA, and maintains influential roles in professional organizations, serving as a former Secretary of the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals and current President Elect of the European Medical Writers Association.

Dr. Sam T. Mathew, MBA, PhD, is a seasoned medical communication consultant, business leader, and advocate for AI-driven innovations in scholarly publishing. With leadership experience in pharmaceutical companies, publishing houses, editorial organizations, and medical writing agencies, he has built and led world-class medical writing teams, streamlined operations, enhanced processes, and improved client engagement. An entrepreneurial leader, Dr. Mathew has successfully developed high-performing medical writers while driving business growth and aligning with organizational objectives. Passionate about integrating AI into scholarly publishing, he champions its ethical use to enhance efficiency, accelerate research dissemination, and uphold scientific integrity. His expertise spans regulatory writing, scientific publications, peer review, and strategic content development. Actively involved in academic collaborations and knowledge-sharing initiatives, Dr. Mathew continues to shape the future of medical research, communication practices, and AI-powered scientific publishing, ensuring lasting advancements in the field.

Ashutosh Ghildiyal has spent almost two decades in scholarly publishing, taking on various roles, primarily in customer service and business development. He has worked with authors, institutions, and publishers, with a significant focus on setting up international businesses and taking them from zero to one in markets such as China, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and India.

In his current role as VP of Growth and Strategy at Integra, he collaborates with scholarly publishers and societies to support both upstream and downstream workflows. Integra’s expertise spans processes such as manuscript screening, research integrity, peer review, and production, leveraging AI-based products alongside human expert-led services. Ashutosh has a keen interest in the application of AI to improve the peer review process and has written several articles on reviewer fatigue and AI.

Marie F Soulière is Head of Editorial Ethics and Quality Assurance with the open access publisher Frontiers, based in Switzerland. She studied pharmacology and biochemistry at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, before moving to Austria to conduct postdoctoral research in chemical and computational biology at the University of Innsbruck. With 12 publications, a patent and a large number of presentation awards to her research record, she then started her career in open access publishing. She has since worked to improve dissemination, access to, and quality of research and published articles, with a specific focus on research integrity, quality peer review and maintaining ethical standards, balanced with an emphasis on operational efficiency and automation. She now leads strategic publishing projects across departments and product platforms. She was heavily involved in developing Frontiers’ artificial intelligence review assistant (AIRA), and is a member of CrossRef’s Membership and Fees committee.

Catherine has worked in and with the publishing industry for 30 years, working both for large publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Elsevier and De Gruyter as well as, more recently, for much smaller operations such as Knowledge Unlatched and Reviewer Credits. She is currently Head of Sales with Reviewer Credits, based in a small village in the North of Germany. In this role, which she has held since May 2024, she is talking to journals and publishers all over the world about how Reviewer Credits can support them in improving the peer review process and reducing pain points, while also promoting the recognition of the valuable work which peer reviewers are doing, and which often goes unrecognized.

Dr. Jennifer Bruder is the Associate Dean for Research and an Associate Teaching Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. She provides strategic leadership to advance research initiatives, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and supporting faculty and student research across diverse disciplines. Dr. Bruder oversees research administration, including IRB processes and grant management, and works closely with global campuses to align institutional goals. With a Ph.D. in Neuropsychology from the University of Munich, her academic background complements her administrative expertise, including securing external funding, developing internal research programs, and mentoring faculty on proposal development. Her research spans cross-cultural cognition, sustainability, and neurodevelopmental disorders. A strong advocate for inclusive and dynamic research environments, she emphasizes community engagement and cross-cultural collaboration to promote impactful, globally relevant scholarship.

Kira Dreher is Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, as well as an Assistant Teaching Professor. She received her PhD from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Rhetoric and Technical and Scientific Communication. She studies plain language and other strategies related to communicating complex research to multiple audiences. She teaches professional writing, rhetorical style and first-year writing, and also co-edits an undergraduate research journal at CMUQ.

Dikran Toroser, PhD, has led and contributed to key publication committees with international professional organizations, including ISMPP and AMWA. He has managed publication groups in major pharmaceutical companies and is a founding director of the University of California San Diego’s medical writing program. Dikran currently runs his own publications consultancy. With a PhD in Biochemistry from the UK, he is passionate about advancing the field and embracing new technologies.

Zeger Karssen earned degrees in both Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam. Since then, he has accumulated extensive experience in scientific research, publishing and internet technology, working across both academic and business environments. He has held positions as a senior researcher in artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam and in a private laboratory in Paris. From 2000 to 2006, he worked as a scientific publisher at Elsevier, where he developed new scientific journals and book series and managed a portfolio of 15 internationally recognized journals in the field of artificial intelligence. In addition, he has served as an advisor and evaluator for various EU funding programs for nearly a decade. He is also an associate professor of digital publishing at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In 2006, Zeger founded Atlantis Press, a fully Open Access publishing company, which was acquired by SpringerNature in 2021. In 2022, he established World Brain Scholar, an initiative dedicated to employing AI-technology to enhance the scientific publishing process.

Lisa DeTora is Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and the Director of STEM Writing at Hofstra University, where she also serves as guest faculty in medical humanities for the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. A coauthor of dozens of biomedical papers, Lisa has also edited two editions of Regulatory Writing: An Overview, and served as the first author of the current Good Publication Practice for Company-Sponsored Research, which appeared in Annals of Internal Medicine in 2022. Lisa has published in various journals and contributed to several volumes on technical communication theory, pedagogy, gendered health communication and mental health rhetoric research.

Hong is the Senior Director of AI Product Management at Wiley, where he designs AI strategy, drives the product roadmap, and leads teams in developing intelligent solutions that automate and enhance research and publishing processes using AI, big data, and cloud technologies. Hong holds a Ph.D. in 3D modeling with AI from Aberystwyth University and an MBA in Digital Transformation from the University of Oxford. A recognized AI thought leader in the scholarly publishing industry, he articulates the vision, challenges, and opportunities of AI in transforming the field. Honored with the 2024 APE Award for Innovation, Hong has been a Scholarly Kitchen Chef since 2023, co-chairs ALPSP’s AI Special Interest Group, and is a member of The STM Future Lab. Hong also serves as a COPE advisor and main contributor to design Wiley's AI principles and led the development of Wiley's first AI-driven papermill detection tool, a market-leading integrity solution.

Maria Machado is a physiologist turned consultant. She has explored different formats of peer review and attempts to bridge the gap between researchers, the academic publishing industry, and society at large. A deep interest in science communication and literacy motivates her blog writing, course teaching, and content editing, as well as participation in initiatives such as Peer Review Week, Love Methods Week, and Open Access Week.

Dikran Toroser, PhD, has led and contributed to key publication committees with international professional organizations, including ISMPP and AMWA. He has managed publication groups in major pharmaceutical companies and is a founding director of the University of California San Diego’s medical writing program. Dikran currently runs his own publications consultancy. With a PhD in Biochemistry from the UK, he is passionate about advancing the field and embracing new technologies.

Dr. Gareth Dyke is an accomplished researcher, author, and journal manager with over 380 peer-reviewed publications. With extensive experience bridging academia and publishing, he has worked with Charlesworth, TopEdit, Edanz, and Springer Nature. Currently, he serves as Academic Director at ReviewerCredits and co-founder of Sci-Train. Holding a PhD from the University of Bristol, he has held faculty positions at University College Dublin and the University of Southampton. Gareth is also an experienced educator, delivering global researcher training sessions and collaborating with institutions across Europe and Asia.

Wang Linhui, Associate Professor of Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Science Editor of China Oncology and Oncoradiology, obtained Master's degree of English Translation from Fudan University (College of Foreign Language and Literature) in 2012. Currently serving as the Director of Biomedical Journal Professional Committee of Shanghai Society for Scientific & Technical Periodicals, Member of International Cooperation Committee of Society of China University Journals, Youth Editorial Board Member of Journal of Scholarly Communication, etc.