Steve Diggs

Bio coming soon!

Mohammad Hosseini

Mohammad Hosseini is an Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. His work focuses on research ethics, AI ethics, and open science. He is a member of the Global Young Academy, serves as an editor for Accountability in Research and the Research Ethics Forum book series, and is a member of Springer Nature’s US Research Advisory Council and Advarra’s AI Ethics Council. As a researcher and educator, he advocates for the responsible use of AI in science, helping researchers anticipate risks, uphold integrity, and consider societal impacts.

Fiona Hutton

Fiona Hutton is Head of Publishing at the open access publisher, eLife. In January 2023, eLife moved to a Publish, Review, Curate model of publishing, ensuring open science practices are at the core of the eLife publishing model. Fiona leads both publishing and marketing & communication divisions comprising six departments and is responsible for working with partners, funders, institutions and the open science community to drive research publishing to open. Prior to joining eLife, Fiona has worked in scholarly publishing for 23 years driving the strategic and operational transformation to OA publishing and creating innovative open research products and publishing initiatives. Before moving to OA, Fiona held a variety of key roles in Review publishing and started out life as a research scientist focused on cancer research.

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is Director, Open Research Solutions at Public Library of Science (PLOS), where he leads a programme of activity to understand and increase adoption of Open Science practices, and increase the benefits of adopting Open Science. This includes a variety of research activities, Open Science Indicators (monitoring) solutions, and PLOS’ initiatives relating preprints, data sharing, code sharing, and open methods. He also leads stakeholder engagement activities for PLOS' Redefining Publishing project, which is developing a blueprint for the future of open science publishing.

Lynda Kellam

Dr. Lynda Kellam is one of the founding organizers of the Data Rescue Project and the Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data & Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. She is the co-author of Numeric Data Services and Sources for the General Reference Librarian (2011), co-editor of Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian in Theory and Practice (2016), and has presented extensively on data services, data management, and FAIR Guidelines. She is the current Secretary of IASSIST, an international data professional organization, and has served in multiple leadership positions in ALA, ACRL, and GODORT. She holds an MLIS, an MA in Political Science, and a PhD in American History.

Rachel Kurchin

Rachel Kurchin is a computational materials scientist who uses electronic structure theory, data science, and energy device modeling to fight the climate crisis. She is an active contributor to and developer of a variety of scientific codes, and serves as an associate editor in chief of the Journal of Open Source Software. She joined the CMU Materials Science and Engineering Department faculty in Fall 2022, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and a member of the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute. In 2024, Kurchin was selected as a member of the inaugural class of Molecular Sciences Software Institute Faculty Fellows and also received the Scientific Software Research Faculty Award from the Simons Foundation.

Chris Long

Christopher P. Long is the provost and senior vice president at the University of Oregon. Recognized for values-enacted leadership, Provost Long is committed to the transformative power of liberal arts research and teaching.

Provost Long has more than $8 million of funded research projects, including the Mellon funded Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages Partnership with the Big 10 Academic Alliance, a participatory research initiative and teaching framework developed in reciprocal partnership with Indigenous communities and institutions across the Big 10; the Public Philosophy Journal, an innovative online publication for accessible scholarship that deepens our understanding of publicly relevant issues and HuMetricsHSS, a values-enacted initiative committed to transforming higher education by aligning indicators of academic excellence with core personal and institutional values. An expert in both ancient Greek and contemporary continental philosophy, Provost Long’s extensive publication record includes four books.

You can learn more about him and his work on his website: https://cplong.org/

Zia Lyle

Zia is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation at UNC Chapel Hill. She completed her PhD at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in May 2025 in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy. Her research is aimed at understanding the risks climate change poses to drinking water systems and helping these systems better adapt to climate change. As Vice President of External Affairs of the CMU Graduate Student Assembly, she led advocacy efforts to increase federal investments in open science practices. She also served on the CMU Open Science Advisory Board.

Leticia Pequeno Madureira

Bio coming soon!

Meredith Schmehl

Dr. Meredith Schmehl is the Open Science Strategy Program Coordinator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), where she supports scientists with tools, resources, and technology to make their science more accessible while shaping the landscape of scientific communication. She also tracks HHMI publication data, monitors compliance with HHMI's open access publishing policies, and connects policy monitoring with assessment processes across the Institute. Before turning to research administration and open science, Dr. Schmehl worked in nonprofit communications, led opportunities for early-career scientists to build skills in science communication and science policy, and produced a variety of independent media to highlight the social impact of science. She has been recognized as a leader at the intersection of science and civic engagement by national organizations and media outlets. Dr. Schmehl holds a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Duke University as well as a B.S. in Neuroscience and a B.S. in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University.

Katie Steen-James

Katie joined OSI after leading policy and advocacy for SPARC, a nonprofit coalition working to implement open access and open education policies in North America. Before SPARC, she was a federal relations officer at the Association of American Universities where she advocated for federal research investments and developed programming and positions on open research data issues. Katie brings 10 years of experience in government relations and policy analysis and a commitment to educating policymakers about the benefits of open.

Richard Sever

Richard Sever is Chief Science and Strategy Officer at openRxiv, the non-profit organization that runs the preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv, which he co-founded. Richard obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, graduating with 1st Class honours in Biochemistry. He switched to Cambridge for his PhD, researching gene regulation at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Richard then trained as an editor, working first at Current Opinion in Cell Biology and then Trends in Biochemical Science. He later became Executive Editor of Journal of Cell Science at The Company of Biologists, where he played an important role developing their publication program.

Richard joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2008 and was appointed Assistant Director of its press in 2012. He launched the journals Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology and Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine, serving as Executive Editor, alongside Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. He also edited several books, including the textbook Signal Transduction and the handbook Career Alternatives for Biomedical Scientists. Richard co-founded bioRxiv in 2013 and medRxiv in 2019 to allow scientists to share research much more rapidly. The servers became essential resources for researchers and played critical roles during the pandemic.

Richard is widely acknowledged as a leading thinker in scientific communication. In 2022, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Cold Spring Harbor School of Biological Sciences in recognition of his work, and in 2025 he was recognized by Time magazine in their Time100 list of the most influential people in health. Richard was awarded The Royal Society Research Culture Award in 2025 for outstanding work in the improvement of the research system.

Keith Webster

Keith Webster was appointed Dean of University Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University in July 2013 and was additionally appointed as Director of Emerging and Integrative Media Initiatives in July 2015 and Posner Dean’s Chair in 2021. He also has a courtesy academic appointment at the University’s H. John Heinz III College. Previously, Keith was Vice President and Director of Academic Relations and Strategy for the global publishing company John Wiley and Sons. He was formerly Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Queensland in Australia, leading one of the largest universities and hospital library services in the southern hemisphere. Earlier positions include University Librarian at Victoria University in New Zealand, Head of Information Policy at HM Treasury, London, and Director of Information Services at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. Keith has held professorships in information science at Victoria University of Wellington and City University, London. He is a Chartered Fellow and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK), and has served on government advisory boards, journal editorial boards, and as an officer in professional and learned societies around the world. He was Chair of the National Information Standards Organization in 2018/19. Keith’s professional interests include research evaluation, learning space design, and trends in scholarly communication. He is a regular speaker on topics such as the future of research libraries and the impact of open science on publishing and libraries.

Aneese Williams

Aneese Williams, MSc, is a co-organizer for Pathways to Open Science as a representative of BIMS. She is a graduate of Hampton University where she studied Marine & Environmental Science. Aneese has an M.Sc. in Marine Biology & Fisheries from University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS). Currently, Aneese is the Environmental Management Systems Coordinator for the City of West Palm Beach, FL. She manages an Environmental Education Program that allows employees to be more aware of their potential environmental impacts associated with their everyday tasks, highlighting the importance of protecting the environment. Aneese is on the Science Core Heuristics for Open Science Outcomes in Learning (SCHOOL) Open Science Team (OST) with Columbia Climate School and is an NSF BIO-LEAPS Advisory Board Member. She is an expert in problem-solving with data, working to “do things better in less time”.

Eric Yttri

Eric Yttri is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon where he develops and applies ML-based analytical methods to understand the neural mechanisms of decision making and motor control. His lab seeks to establish the multi-scale brain interactions underlying learning and behavior, especially in the naturalistic contexts that the brain evolved to solve. The results of these efforts have led to recent publications in Nature, Science Advances, and Nature Methods, as well as being appointed as Co-Chair of the Allen Institute Next Generation Leaders Council.