Lea Ryynänen-Karjalainen is the Executive Director of the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies since 2014. Before the Federation she has worked as the Vice Rector of the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, senior science adviser at the Research Council of Finland and several university management positions. She is also the Chair of the Board of the University of Eastern Finland since 2016. She has a PhD from the Sibelius-Academy in church music.

Specialization in the field of open scholarly communication: Science policy issues, public funding, citizen science

Contact: Lea.Ryynanen-Karjalainen[a]tsv.fi

Astrid Aschehoug is head of the Open Science, Scholarly Publishing, and Research Data division at CNRS Humanities & Social Sciences.

A graduate Publisher with a Master’s degree (Master 2) in publishing Policies from Paris XIII University (Villetaneuse), she worked in several French institutional contexts.

Specialization in the field of open scholarly communication:
transformation of publishing professions; institutional support for scholarly publishing.

Contact: astrid.aschehoug[at]cnrs.fr

Michael Kaiser is a Historian and Director of the department perspectivia.net, library and IT affairs at the headquarters of the Max Weber Stiftung (MWS).

Specialization in the field of open scholarly communication: Digital publishing, enriched digital publications, new digital formats, and blogging.

Contact: kaiser[a]maxweberstiftung.de 

Vassiliki Apostolopoulou joined the National Documentation Centre (EKT) as a Research Associate and is working on an EU-funded project focusing on open scholarly communication and open access/science policies. Vassiliki holds a PhD in Political Philosophy, and she is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of Performing Arts. In addition, she has experience in digital media and participates in working groups for organising libraries and archives.

Specialization in the field of open scholarly communication: open access and open data, open science policies

Contact: vapostolopoulou[a]ekt.gr

Franjo Pehar is Associate Professor and Head of the Laboratory for Interactive Systems and User Experience (UX Lab). He also serves as the Director of the Doctoral Study “Knowledge Society and Transfer of Information”. His career has been marked by a strong focus on the history and theory of information science, delving into areas such as scholarly communication, bibliometrics, and information retrieval. Additionally, his expertise extends to human-computer interaction, emphasising usability, user experience, and personal information and knowledge management. 

ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0690-863X

Specialization in the field of information science: Scholarly communication and publishing, bibliometrics, human-computer interaction, usability, user experience, and personal information and knowledge management.

Contact: fpehar[a]unizd.hr

Elena Giglia, PhD in Italian literature, Masters’ Degree in Librarianship and Masters’ Degree in Public Institutions Management, is Head of the Open Access Office at the University of Turin. 

She is a member of the Committee on Open Science at the Ministry for Higher Education and Research (MIUR) and of several national and international Working Groups. She has been part of the European Open Science network since many years, attending national and international conferences, and writing and lecturing on Open Access and Open Science. She takes part as an expert in several EU Workshops on Open Access and Open Science. She is one of the coordinators of the CO-OPERAS Implementation Network in GO FAIR.  She serves in the Scientific Committee of the international OAI-CERN workshop on Innovation in Scholarly Communication, of the ELPUB conference, and of the IRCDL conference; she is a member of the Advisory Board of Open Knowledge Maps and Qeios. Elena is the OPERAS delegate within the EOSC Association since December 2020. 

Specialization in the field of open scholarly communication: Open Access and Open Science advocacy, Open Access publishing, EOSC, FAIR data, data management 

Contact: elena.giglia[a]unito.it

Niels Stern is Director of OAPEN and Co-director of DOAB. He began his career in scholarly book publishing in 2003. Co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. Head of Publishing at the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2011. Since 2014 independent expert for the European Commission on open science and e-infrastructures. In 2017 Head of Department for Licence Management at the Royal Danish Library and chief negotiator for the national licence consortium in Denmark.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6466-9748

Specialization in the field of open scholarly communication: Digital book publishing, open access publishing, open infrastructures, citizen science, policy development

Contact: stern[a]oapen.org

Monica Roos is a senior advisor at The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills at the headquarter in Bergen. She is running ERIH PLUS at the directorate, a European journal index within the SSH area.

She has a background in research libraries where she specialised in open repositories from early 2000. Since then, she has worked at the point of intersection between technology and users, with a particular focus on researchers and their varied publication needs. Due to her background, she has a strong knowledge of Open Science biology and culture, bibliometrics and other aspects of the academic publication processes. She has also worked as a research adviser at the University of Bergen the latest years. Over the years she has been involved in projects and networks in Norway and Europe.

Specialization in the field of open scholarly communication: academic publication processes.

Contact: Monica.Roos[a]hkdir.no

Magdalena Wnuk is Head of the Open Humanities Section at the Digital Humanities Centre of the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 2021, she has co-coordinated the Polish national node of OPERAS and contributed to several European and national projects focused on advancing scholarly communication and strengthening research infrastructures for the humanities and social sciences. Trained as a historian and cultural anthropologist, she holds a PhD in the humanities. Before joining the Institute of Literary Research, she worked with civil society organisations on initiatives promoting public data, transparency, and access to information, contributing to the development of public-interest digital platforms. 

Specialisation in the field of open scholarly communication: Open Science policy, and practice open access monographs and academic books publishing; diamond open access publishing; scholarly communication infrastructures.

Delfim Leão is Full Professor at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of Coimbra. Former Director of Coimbra University Press (2011-2021), he is Vice-Rector for Culture and Open Science. 

Specialisation in the field of open scholarly communication: His scientific and professional activities include the development of two specialised digital platforms: the Classica Digitalia and the UC Digitalis. He is at present a member of the UNESCO Open Science Advisory Committee.

Contact: leo[a]fl.uc.pt

Aleš Pogačnik is editor-in-chief and general manager of Založba ZRC, publishing unit of ZRC SAZU, holds MA in Philosophy.

Specialization in the field of open scholarly communication: Open Access publishing, copyright issues, dissemination and publishing tools.

Contact: ales.pogacnik[a]zrc-sazu.si

Pilar Rico-Castro is Head of the Open Access, Repositories and Journals Unit at FECYT NCP for Open Science in Horizon Europe Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT).

Contact: pilar.rico[a]fecyt.es