Join us for ORCID in the Wild, where we discover the vast array of ORCID adoption within the scholarly community. Like seeds scattered by the wind, ORCID has taken root across the globe, sprouting connections and nurturing collaborations.

In this series, we showcase ORCID use cases from around the community, and we are delighted to feature PREreview in the inaugural session. Register for this session to learn about PREreview’s integration with ORCID that gives researchers the ability to link their open preprint reviews to their ORCID records, highlighting their academic service, reducing the effort required to manually maintain their profiles and allowing that data to be reused by any of the 5,400+ other systems that are interconnected with ORCID.

Anna Hatch, PhD, Program Officer for Open Science Strategy at the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute will also join to discuss how PREreview and ORCID work together for her institution.

Featured Speakers

Vanessa Fairhurst (she/her) – Community Manager, PREreview
Vanessa joined the PREreview team in November 2022. She studied her undergraduate degree in European Languages and Business Management before going on to study her Master’s in Applied and Professional Ethics. She began her career in academia working at international development organization INASP with a focus on improving access to scholarly information and research in developing countries. She then went on to support publishers around the world as Community Engagement Manager at Crossref building a global ambassador team and collaborating with others to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered, linked, and distributed. Openness, accessibility, and equity have always been central to Vanessa’s work, and she greatly enjoys supporting and empowering researchers to improve the research process in her role as Community Manager.

Chad Sansing (he/him) – Product Manager, PREreview
Chad joined the PREreview team in late October 2022. Prior to joining PREreview, he worked for the Mozilla Foundation in a variety of roles, most recently as a program manager on the MozFest team. While at Mozilla, Chad worked on several projects including its web literacy curriculum, Open Leadership Framework, Open Leaders program, and community and program management for the MozFest Trustworthy AI Working Group and the Facilitator and Volunteer communities at MozFest. Before that, Chad taught middle school for 14 years and helped found two small public schools for non-traditional learners. He is passionate about helping people discover their individual and shared capacities for social good and positive change. Outside work, you can find him reading, playing games, and hanging out with friends and family.

Chris Wilkinson (he/him) – Tech Lead Manager, PREreview
Chris is a Tech Lead Manager at eLife and has worked with PREreview since July 2021, helping us develop and maintain our preprint review platform. He started developing software professionally while working for the University of Cambridge, and began contributing to open-source software communities. Chris joined eLife in 2015, initially working on their internal publishing platform and open-source efforts. He later helped found Sciety and establish their remote-first ensemble-programming team. Before joining PREreview, he also worked with Knowledge Futures to create the DocMaps framework. Chris is a keen advocate for sustainable and accessible web-based software, iteratively developed in close collaboration with the wider team.

Anna Hatch, PhD — Program Officer for Open Science Strategy, Howard Hughes Medical
Institute
Anna Hatch, PhD, is a Program Officer for Open Science Strategy at the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute. She previously served as the Program Director for the Declaration on Research Assessment
(DORA), where she worked to help the academic community advance practical and robust
approaches to researcher assessment. DORA aims to raise awareness of new tools and
processes, facilitate the implementation of good practices, and catalyze change. Before working
with DORA, Anna was a science policy fellow at Research!America, a nonprofit advocacy
alliance to increase public and policymaker awareness of the benefits of medical research. She
received her PhD in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College where her research focused on
mitochondrial dynamics. In 2021, Anna was awarded the Rada Distinguished Alumni Award
from the from the University of Wisconsin—LaCrosse recognizing her contributions to improve
research culture.

Have an ORCID use case to share with the community? Submit it for consideration for a future webinar.