ORCID Staff

User Support Specialist
Natalia Aldana
Natalia supports ORCID users in different languages.
She’s fluent in Spanish, English, French

Member Support Technical Specialist
Francisco Alsina
Francisco is technical support specialist for ORCID member organizations helping them get

Web Producer
Rob Blackburn
Rob maintains the ORCID Info site keeping it up-to-date, helps with Comms

User Support Specialist
Thamirys Cabral
Thamirys supports users who speak Portuguese and Spanish.
She has a Bachelors in

Engagement Lead, Global Direct
Ana Patricia Cardoso
Ana provides coaching to support technical integrations by members in the Americas.
She

Engagement Manager, Global Direct
Estelle Cheng
Estelle Cheng supports and engages with ORCID Direct Members, Publishers and Services

QA Lead
Pedro Costa
Pedro leads the QA process for the ORCID Registry managing manual and

Product Director
Tom Demeranville
Tom ensures our technology is responsive to our community and aligned with

Product Manager
Paula Demain
Paula is responsible for gathering, managing and refining the requirements of the

UX Designer
Dan Dineen
Dan is our UX designer. He works making sure we have usable,

Senior Java Backend Engineer
Camelia Dumitru
As part of the IT team, Camelia develops back end functionality for

Accountant
Padma Gopinath
Padma supports the finance and accounting functions of ORCID by maintaining books,

Board Relations Manager
Stephanie Harley
Stephanie provides administrative and logistical support to ORCID’s Board of Directors and

Member Support Technical Specialist
Jordan Holt
Jordan provides first-in-class technical support for ORCID member organizations.
In his free time,

Events & Outreach Specialist
Kimberly Inniger
Kimberly is responsible for ensuring ORCID consortia and members get the most

Operations Project Manager
Emilia Kutrovska
Emilia’s role at ORCID is to lead projects to implement and optimize

Engagement Lead, Global Direct
Nabil Ksibi
Nabil is responsible for fostering ORCID community adoption within the global direct

Engagement Manager, Global Consortia
Paloma Marín-Arraiza
She holds a degree in Physics, a master's degree in Scientific Information

Tech Lead, Registry
Angel Montenegro
As part of our Open Source Team, Angel is in charge of

QA Automation Engineer
Karen Madrigal
Karen drives the Automated testing effort for the ORCID Registry.
She graduated as

Senior Front End Engineer
Leonardo Mendoza
As part of our Open Source Team Leonardo specializes in UI development

Engagement Lead, Global Consortia
Brian Minihan
Brian supports community adoption, fostering development and executing strategic goals of ORCID

Senior Engagement Lead
Shivendra Naidoo
With over a decade of experience working in the Academic Publishing and

Senior User Support Specialist
Mitra Najafi-Gheidari
Mitra provides first tier support to researchers with queries about their ORCID

Tech Lead
George Nash
George joined the team in 2016 having worked as a developer across

Java Full Stack Engineer
Daniel Palafox
As part of our Open Source Team, Daniel specializes in front-end and

Director, Communications
Julie Petro
As Director of Communications for ORCID, Julie is responsible for setting and

Junior Full Stack Engineer
Andrej Romanov
Andrej helps to improve and maintain the codebase of the ORCID registry

Executive Director
Chris Shillum
With more than 25 years of experience in product and platform development

User Support Manager
Matt Stockman
Matt has over 10 years experience of working in technology within the

Engagement Manager, Outreach & Partnerships
Shawna Sadler
Shawna heads up Outreach & Partnerships at ORCID, building strategic relationships worldwide

Director, Technology
Will Simpson
Will is responsible for ORCID’s technical strategy, infrastructure, and scalability, and manages

Grant Program Officer/ Engagement Lead
Lombe Tembo
Lombe is responsible for improving equity of participation in ORCID in currently

Interim Director of Operations
Tommy Tepper
Tommy Tepper is Interim Director of Operations at Orcid.
His career

Senior Devops Engineer
Giles Westwood
Giles is an experienced engineer and manager in operations with over 15

Director of Engagement
Ivo Wijnbergen
Heading up Engagement at ORCID, Ivo is responsible for our global community

Content Marketing Writer
Élan Young
Élan creates and manages the distribution of content for ORCID’s blog, website,