Presenter:
Alberto Pepe, Sr. Director of Product Strategy and Innovation, joined Wiley in March 2018 via Atypon’s acquisition of Authorea. Alberto holds degrees in Astrophysics, Information Systems and Computer Science from Harvard University, UCLA and University College London. For his Ph.D. work he was awarded with the Best Dissertation Award by the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Alberto worked in the Information Technology Department of CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, where he developed digital library tools and promoted Open Access and reproducible research among particle physicists. In 2013, Alberto co-founded Authorea, a collaborative publishing platform for Open Research. In his current role, Alberto focuses on strategy and innovation around open research publishing.