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Diplomat-Speaker Sandra Vengadasalam Sandra Vengadasalam is responsible for future developments and the realization of ideas at the MPDL. As a former researcher in molecular biology and biochemistry she supports Open Access passionately but also knows about the challenges of publishing Open Access in science. Before she joined MPDL, her biggest dream has been a Nature paper. |
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Diplomat-Speaker Prateek Mahalwar Prateek Mahalwar, PhD Student at The Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology – works how different cell types interact with one another and form various patterns in the lab of Prof. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. Besides his PhD, Prateek is the new Spokesperson (2015) of PhDnet at Max Planck Society and also an early-career advisory group member of the Journal eLife. Before joining Max Planck for his doctoral education, he studied Neuroscience at Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology and University of Magdeburg, Germany. He joined the Open Access movement as a co-organizer of Berlin 11 satellite conference, 2013 in Berlin. He is involved in educating and advocating about Open Access among early stage researchers because he thinks early-stage researchers are the future of science and could revolutionize the research communication. |
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Diplomat-Speaker Frank Sander Frank Sander is General Manager of the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). With his team at MPDL, the central digital library of the Max Planck Society, he ensures availability of digital scientific information and related information infrastructure services to the scientists at the Max Planck Institutes worldwide. Before MPDL, he has collected over 10 years of experience in software development and IT management, as executive board member and as strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company. He holds a PhD in physics and worked scientifically with Ted Hänsch at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. His various memberships include the steering board of the Alliance of German Science Organisations’ Priority Initiative Digital Information, the programme committee of the Berlin Open Access conference series, and the Review Board of the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Science. |
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Diplomat-Speaker Georg Botz Georg Botz studied physics in Bielefeld and Heidelberg and received his Ph.D. from Heidelberg University for a thesis in the field of theoretical particle physics in 1993. After employments with the Spektrum Verlag, the Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag and the TÜV-Akademie, he joined the Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society in 2004 where he is in charge of open access policy issues. His acquaintance with the topic goes back as far as 2002 when he, then a member of the Executive Board of the “German Physical Society”, was deeply involved in establishing the “New Journal of Physics”. From the very beginning, Georg was involved in the planning and the implementation of eLife, the Open Access journal founded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA), the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the Max Planck Society. Last, but not least, Georg Botz initiated the first open access conference for students and early career researchers which took place in Berlin in 2013. |
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Diplomat-Speaker Astrid Orth Göttingen State and University Library/ FOSTER FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) aims at training stakeholders, especially young researchers, for open science. During the two year project training events are supported and co-funded across Europe covering policies and practices of Open Access, open data and tools in various research areas and how to embed them in workflows, as well as licensing and managing research data. High quality training material is collected and made available for re-use in learning and training activities at http://fosteropenscience.eu. Astrid Orth works in the Electronic Publishing unit at Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. For the FOSTER project she manages the Dissemination work package and contributes to the development of the training program. Previously she worked as knowledge manager at Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. |
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Diplomat-Speaker Nick Shockey Advancing Research by Returning Research Communication to its Roots About Nick Shockey (http://www.sparc.arl.org/about/staff/nick-shockey) |
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Diplomat-Speaker Ulrich Pöschl Open Access in the Scientific Discourse and Quality Assurance About Ulrich Pöschl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Pöschl) |
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Diplomat-Speaker Erin C. McKiernan My experiences with open access publishing as an early-career researcher About Erin McKiernan (https://emckiernan.wordpress.com/) |
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Diplomat-Speaker Björn Brembs If only access were the only problem of our infrastructure! About Björn Brembs (http://brembs.net/) |
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Diplomat-Speaker Randy Schekman Publishing your most important work About Rany Schekman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Schekman) |
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Diplomat-Speaker Mark Patterson DORA the reformer – prospects for new approaches to research assessment Mark Patterson was a researcher in human and yeast genetics for 12 years before moving into scientific publishing in 1994 as the Editor of Trends in Genetics. After a few years at Nature, where he was involved in the launch of the Nature Reviews Journals, he moved to the nonprofit open access startup publisher PLoS in 2003. As an editor, Mark helped to launch several of the PLoS Journals and was appointed as Director of Publishing in 2005. He was also one of the founders of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. In November 2011, Mark joined the eLife team and has been building the professional staff team in Cambridge, UK, to help get the journal off the ground. |
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Diplomat-Speaker Meredith Niles Talking about open access with your colleagues and advisors About Meredith Niles (http://bit.ly/1vxfNqR) |
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Diplomat-Speaker Ross Mounce Data mining & re-use of published research: copyright problems & the benefits of full open access, elucidated About Ross Mounce (http://rossmounce.co.uk/) |
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Diplomat-Speaker Kai Geschuhn Kai fosters Open Access strategies within the Max Planck Digital Library. She is a member of the Open Access working groups of the Max Planck Society, the Alliance of German Science Organization and part of the program committee of the German Open Access Days. Kai formerly worked as a librarian at a biomedical research institute where she was giving lectures on scientific publishing and Open Access at the institute’s graduate school. Additionally she has been teaching information literacy at Hamburg University. |
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Diplomat-Speaker Michael Franke The MPDL Collections department, managed by Michael, takes care of the stable and sustainable operation of MPG cyber-infrastructure, containing the institutional publication repository MPG.PuRe, various digital research environments and research data repositories. Michael studied sociology in Munich and got seven years of experience in business software development in the corporate sector before joining Max Planck in 2007. He is representing the Max Planck Society in national and European working groups on Research Data Management. |
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Diplomat-Speaker Andreas Vogler [Workspaz] is a generic, web-based cooperation, collaboration, and communication platform. In my talk I will shortly introduce this tool and highlight different applications how you can exchange conference related material or stay in touch via [workspaz]. |
The Ambassadors conference event will be supported by: