ORCID Board

Amal Amin is a professor for polymers and nanotechnology at the National Research Center-Egypt. She has studied in, worked at, and travelled to 30+ countries including Germany (PhD-DAAD), USA, and France. She has distinguished scientific achievements including publications, projects, teaching, and awards. She was a co-founder and executive committee member of the Global and Egyptian Young Academies (GYA, EYAS). She was president, co-founder and coordinator of the Egyptian Society and Arab Network for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. She was a TWAS young affiliate, TWAS-AAAS science diplomacy alumni and member of TWAS-TYAN. She is a founding chair of women in science without borders’ (WISWB) initiative, World forum for women in science series and youth science forum. In December 2020, she co-founded the Northern African Research and Innovation Management Association (NARIMA) initiative. Dr Amal is a founder for science diplomacy for the future initiative (2021) and executive committee member of (Science in Exile) which is a global initiative to support refugee scientists and at-risk scholars. She is especially interested in science communication, simplified science, increasing public awareness/literacy for science, science advice/diplomacy, innovation, science policy, and science education

Linda is Adjunct Professor and Executive in Residence within Griffith Business School’s Department of Business Strategy and Innovation. She has extensive experience in executive leadership and management with particular expertise in data, technology and digital transformation. She has published and presented nationally and internationally in her field, and contributed to the development of the global research information infrastructure as a Director of ORCID, an international Board with directors from both the private and public IT, information and research sector.

What brought Linda to, and keeps her passionate about ORCID is the enormous potential to inter-connect the research ecosystem to drive research accessibility and impact, while significantly reducing administrative burden of researchers.

As Executive Director of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, Clare Appavoo leads a team of 25 in the delivery to Canada’s university libraries of $135M of licensed digital content annually while also providing digitization of, access to and preservation of Canadian heritage content for researchers and the public. Previously, she was the North American Sales Director for an academic monograph supplier. She has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of SCOAP3. In collaboration with other members of the Canadian research infrastructure community, she contributed to the development of the ORCID Canada consortium.

Paul Gemmill has had a varied career since the late 1980s ranging across the public, private and voluntary sectors, dedicated since the early 2000s to the public sector and research. He is now the Director of UK Research and Innovation’s (UKRI) Reforming our Business programme with a focus on releasing researchers and innovators from unnecessary bureaucratic burdens. He studied modern history at the University of Oxford and later augmented my skills through an MBA from London Business School. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, recognising his contributions to the biological sciences in the UK through his work at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and The Pirbright Institute (previously the Institute for Animal Health).

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor as well as Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library and Affiliate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was previously the Library Instruction Coordinator and Assistant/Associate Professor at Illinois State University and a faculty Reference Librarian at Parkland (Community) College. Lisa currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for Scholarly Publishing Board and has previously served as President of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Lisa has consulted, presented, and published widely on scholarly communications, publishing, copyright literacy, the value of libraries, strategic planning, organizational innovation, emerging technologies, program evaluation, library assessment, inclusion and equity, information literacy, and teaching and learning.

Daniel is CEO at Digital Science. Daniel has held many positions within Digital Science since joining the business four years ago as co-founder of Symplectic, one of Digital Science’s first portfolio companies. Most recently, he has served as Director of Research Metrics, whilst also acting as interim COO of portfolio company, Figshare. Daniel was a PhD student in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London before he joined Digital Science.

In his free time Daniel continues to play an active role in theoretical physics research. His interests include PT-Symmetric quantum theory, quantum statistical mechanics and complex network theory.

Dr. Calvin Johnson (Operations Research) serves as Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Research Information Systems (ORIS), Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health. He provides guidance and expertise on natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, artificial intelligence, “big data,” and predictive analytics toward the mission of ORIS, which is to provide data and reporting support for the management of NIH grants. Previously, he served for many years as the Chief of the High-Performance Computing and Informatics Office in the NIH Center for Information Technology’s Office of Intramural Research, supporting intramural NIH investigators through expertise in state-of-the-art data science arising in biomedical research.

Katherine McNeill brings over 20 years’ experience in research infrastructure, with a focus on research data. Currently at the Harvard Business School, she leads the Library’s Research Data Program, a cross-departmental service which enables researchers to evaluate, acquire, use, manage and archive data. Previously she served as the Associate Director for Access at the UK Data Archive, directing strategic leadership and delivery of access and discovery products and services for the UK Data Service. Prior to that, she led Data Management Services and provided social science data services at the MIT Libraries. Amongst professional involvement, she presently is Co-chair of the Research Data Alliance Working Group on Data Granularity, and served on the Administrative Committee of the International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology. Ms. McNeill has a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois and is near completion of an MBA from the University of Warwick, with a focus on organisational behaviour.

Alison Mitchell is Chief Journals Officer for the international publisher, Springer Nature. The journal’s portfolio contains almost 3,000 titles covering a range of subjects–from the life, physical and applied sciences, to medicine, the humanities, and the social sciences. The portfolio contains a number of prestigious brands including Nature Research, BMC, Springer and Palgrave Macmillan.

Alison started her career as a researcher studying the molecular biology of genetic recombination at the ICRF Clare Hall Laboratories in Hertfordshire, UK. After her PhD, Alison made the jump to science publishing working first as an editor on the international weekly journal of science, Nature, and then as the launch Chief Editor for Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. Since then she has held various editorial and publishing roles within the Nature Publishing Group and, following the merger with Springer Science & Business Media in 2015, within Springer Nature. She has been Chief Journals Officer since October 2019.

I joined the ORCID Board after being encouraged to do so by the New Zealand ORCID Advisory committee. I have been on the New Zealand committee for three years to provide an indigenous, Māori perspective. In New Zealand, we have a number of policies that aim to include the Māori ‘voice’ so as to develop policy and processes that benefit all citizens as well as to acknowledge the ‘tangata whenua’, or first peoples. As a person with strong connections to my tribal group of Ngāi Tahu, with whom I have many roles and responsibilities, it is important that such views can be expressed in research organizations and infrastructures like ORCID.

My particular interest is in how new technologies, and in particular data, benefit or disempower indigenous people – either in NZ or globally. This is through my research and focus in a 10-year science and technology program, where I am the Māori knowledge leader. Through this, I have become an advisor to the Global Indigenous Data Alliance, and am on the IEEE working party for the provenance of Indigenous people’s data. ORCID has an opportunity to contribute to this developing field, although it is early days still.

I lead a very busy life fulfilling my community and academic roles. My passion is to make a difference for our future generations.

Lori is the Assistant Vice President, Research Intelligence, at the University of Arizona. She has worked in research administration at the University of Arizona for nearly 30 years. Her career spans the lifecycle of research management from preaward through postaward. She works on evidence-based policies and marshalling research data in the service of the institution and the faculty who do research and using data to forecast and plan strategies for a resilient future for research. Lori has been involved in the ORCID community since 2011 and led the business analysis effort for SciENcv. She is the co-chair of the FDP’s Electronic Research Administration (eRA) committee, and has conducted presentation and training sessions on a host of topics at the AAU, APLU, NCURA, SRA, FDP, and Educause. She has presented on ORCID and ORCID-related topics since the development of SciENcv. Lori has many years of experience in research, software development, non-profit board leadership, and data analysis. She has a large network of colleagues willing to share their expertise and a particular passion for using data to improve the working lives of the researchers who help us understand the world. Lori received both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Arizona.

Dr. Daisy Selematsela (Information and Knowledge Management) is the Executive Director Library & Information Services at the University of South Africa (UNISA) with 27 years’ experience in the Higher Education Sector and the National System of Innovation. A Professor of Practice of Knowledge Management of the University of Johannesburg, she has been instrumental in championing the Open Access Mandate and Research Data Management in the South. 

Her role in academic citizenship involves board memberships of not for profit organizations and serving on the Board of Directors of COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories), CODATA (Committee on Data of the International Science Council) and ORCID.

On the national level she is a Board Member of ITOCA (Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa), SANLiC (South African National Licensing Consortium) and the Chairperson Elect of CHELSA (Committee for Higher Education Librarians of South Africa).  She previously served on the Board of the National Library of South Africa and Council of the National Archives of South Africa.

Michael Ullyot is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Calgary, specializing in early modern literature and the digital humanities. His book on the rhetoric of exemplarity in early modern England is forthcoming from Oxford University Press (2022). He also researches how computers augment human expertise, including a quantitative model of English-language sonnets.

Jesse is the data and scholarly communication librarian at the University of Hong Kong Libraries. His key role is to provide the research services and coordinate the vision, planning, and implementation of the library’s scholarly communications program.

He oversees the Research Data Services team and the Institutional Repository (Scholars Hub) team. They offer data stewardship services to researchers and students to make research data FAIR, maintain the HKU Scholars Hub as a one-stop-shop for storing all the information related to the HKU research activities and provide the bibliometrics and research impact services etc. Before he joined the HKU Libraries, he was the data architect in the GigaScience Journal – Oxford University Press. He developed and managed the journal data repository – GigaDB database to make research data FAIR.

Stephanie supports and streamlines ORCID’s operations and events. Before joining ORCID, she was the International Program Associate at the Council of American Ambassadors. Prior to that, Stephanie served as a research analyst in governmental and political organizations. She graduated from Villanova University with honors and majored in Political Science.

With more than 25 years of experience in product and platform development in scholarly communications and STM publishing, Chris brings to ORCID his deep expertise in product and technology strategy in a time of rapidly changing business models, technological advances, and increasing expectations from users and customers. He previously held a number of leadership positions at Elsevier, and has served on the boards of Crossref, ORCID, the International DOI Foundation and the National Information Standards Organization. Outside work, Chris enjoys travel, music and movies..