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

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

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

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

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

Estelle Cheng
Engagement Manager, Global Direct
Estelle is responsible for growing the adoption of ORCID, engaging with partners

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stephanie Harley
Operations Manager
Stephanie supports and streamlines ORCID’s operations and events. Before joining ORCID, she

Sarah Hershberger
Director of Finance & Operations
Sarah manages all aspects of ORCID’s back office operations including financial management,

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

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

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

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

Paloma Marín-Arraiza
Engagement Manager, Global Consortia
As part of the Engagement Team Paloma supports ORCID members and consortia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sandy Paparisto
People Operations Manager
Sandy supports ORCID HR initiatives such as talent development and training, performance

Julie Petro
Director, Communications
Julie is responsible for setting and guiding the strategy for all ORCID

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pip White
Junior Technologist (Product)
Currently participating in a placement year while studying IT management for business.

Ivo Wijnbergen
Director of Engagement
Ivo is responsible for our community adoption and sustainability strategy and its

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