Chemistry Central's in-house team
Chemistry Central is part of Springer Science+Business Media and is operated by BioMed Central.
BioMed Central management team
Matthew Cockerill, Managing Director
Matt has overall responsibility for all aspects of BioMed Central and Chemistry Central’s activities. He has been involved with BioMed Central since its launch in 1999, serving first as Technical Director and later as Director of Operations. Prior to BioMed Central, he played a major role in the creation of BioMedNet, a pioneering website for biologists which incorporated both the Trends and Current Opinon review journals. He has a PhD in Biochemistry, which he obtained working under the guidance of Tim Hunt at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He also has a long-standing interest in the use of technology to structure and manage biological and medical knowledge.
Bryan Vickery, Chief Operating Officer
Bryan is responsible for Operations including author services, all aspects of the production of articles once they are accepted for publication, special projects such as journal supplements as well as project management. Bryan has a background in Chemistry, and in the late 1990s worked at Current Science Group (now called Science Navigation Group) on the ChemWeb.com portal (sister to BioMed Net), which he went on to run after it was acquired by Elsevier. He also has experience in running preprint servers and A&I databases, and was MD at Elsevier Advanced Technology (EAT) publishing a range of magazines, newsletters, company profiles and conferences.
Deborah Kahn, Publishing Director
Deborah is responsible for leading the publishing teams to provide an excellent experience for our authors, editors and referees, and for ensuring that BioMed Central continues to grow its portfolio of open access journals. Deborah's career has spanned STM journal and book publishing, database publishing, and research and consultancy. She has been a supporter of open access since the beginning. A mathematician by training, she also has a Masters degree in Organisational Behaviour and a Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy.
Bev Acreman, Commercial Director
Bev leads BioMed Central's commercial team including Sales, Marketing, Customer Services and PR/Events, all of which aim to maximise exposure for open access publishing. Bev's career in STM publishing started in an engineering research organisation; she then worked for Elsevier and later moved on to Taylor & Francis. She is active within UKSG, STM and a new mentoring and best practice network, the MAPP (marketing in academic and professional publishing) as Customer Service Correspondent.
Chemistry Central Editorial
Jan Kuras, Journal Publisher
Jan has overall responsibility for Chemistry Central's publishing activity, including editorial oversight and development of the chemistry journal portfolio, and promotion of open access initiatives in chemistry. Jan has a background in Chemistry specializing in analytical chemistry and chemical information systems. His career in STM has encompassed chemistry and pharmaceutical information product development and management, including journals, databases, web portals and a preprint server.
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