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Our team is currently composed of four full-time employees, Daniela Saderi, PREreview Executive Director, Chad Sansing, PREreview Product Manager, Vanessa Fairhurst, PREreview Community Manager, and Tech Lead Manager, Chris Wilkinson (employed by eLife).
The PREreview’s Leadership Team is composed of the Executive Director and Co-founder, Daniela Saderi, and two other co-founders of PREreview Samantha Hindle and Monica Granados. They receive a reimbursement and light compensation, respectively, for their invaluable contribution to PREreview's mission and programming.
We also rely on the wise advice and support of a growing Advisory Committee, which currently includes the PREreview Leadership Team, Daniela Saderi (Chair), Monica Granados (Co-Chair), Samantha Hindle (Secretary), and Sarah Greaves and Kristen Ratan who are not compensated for this position.
Leadership Team
PREreview Leadership Team is responsible for developing and approving strategic plans, approving new programs and services, discontinuing/suspending programs and services, changing PREreview’s mission statement or values, appointing and liaising with other Advisory Committee members.
It received direct oversight from other members of the Advisory Committee as well as from PREreview fiscal sponsor organization, Code for Science & Society.
Daniela Saderi, Ph.D. (she/her) – Executive Director, Co-Founder, Advisory Committee Chair
Daniela has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience during which she studied mechanisms of auditory processing in mammals. During her time as a student, she became increasingly interested in how open practices can be used to empower early-career researchers in taking ownership over their work, and to facilitate collaborations within and across teams. This passion, combined with active community engagement, led her to co-found PREreview in 2017 and become a Mozilla Fellow for Science in 2018/2019.
Samantha Hindle, Ph.D. (she/her) – Co-Founder, Advisory Committee Secretary
Sam has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience where she characterized neurodegenerative disorders in Drosophila. During her postdoctoral position studying the Drosophila blood-brain barrier, she became increasingly passionate about open science and the potential for preprints to rewrite the way scientists disseminate their research. Following her passion for preprints, Sam became the Content Lead at bioRxiv and now manages the preprint content teams at CSHL. Her advocacy for the use of preprints began with her early engagement with the ASAPbio Ambassadors and Mozilla communities, paths that led her to co-found PREreview in 2017. Sam leads the PREreview Open Reviewers Program, providing ECRs with access to important training and networks to excel in their peer reviewing opportunities.
Monica Granados, Ph.D. (she/her) – Co-Founder, Advisory Committee Co-Chair
Monica has a Ph.D. in Ecology and joined the PREreview team in January 2018, first as a mentor and advisor, and then as the lead of the PREreview live-streamed preprint journal club initiative. During her PhD she discovered that incentives in academia promote practices that make knowledge less accessible and has since devoted her career to working in the open science space to make knowledge more equitable and accessible. Presently, Monica is working at Creative Commons on the Open Climate Campaign promoting open access of climate and biodiversity research.
Staff
Vanessa Fairhurst (she/her) – Community Manager
Vanessa joined the PREreview team in November 2022. She studied her undergraduate in European Languages and Business Management before going onto study her Master’s in Applied and Professional Ethics. She began her career in academia working at international development organization INASP with a focus on improving access to scholarly information and research in developing countries. She then went on to support publishers around the world as Community Engagement Manager at Crossref building a global ambassador team and collaborating with others to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered, linked, and distributed. Openness, accessibility, and equity have always been central to Vanessa’s work, and she greatly enjoys supporting and empowering researchers to improve the research process in her role of Community Manager.
Chad Sansing (he/him) – Product Manager
Chad joined the PREreview team in late October 2022. Prior to joining PREreview, he worked for the Mozilla Foundation in a variety of roles, most recently as a program manager on the MozFest team. While at Mozilla, Chad worked on several projects including its web literacy curriculum, Open Leadership Framework, Open Leaders program, and community and program management for the MozFest Trustworthy AI Working Group and the Facilitator and Volunteer communities at MozFest. Before that, Chad taught middle school for 14 years and helped found two small public schools for non-traditional learners. He is passionate about helping people discover their individual and shared capacities for social good and positive change. Outside work, you can find him reading, playing games, and hanging out with friends and family.
Chris Wilkinson (he/him) – Tech Lead Manager (eLife)
Chris is a Tech Lead Manager at eLife and has worked with PREreview since July 2021, helping us develop and maintain our preprint review platform. He started developing software professionally while working for the University of Cambridge, and began contributing to open-source software communities. Chris joined eLife in 2015, initially working on their internal publishing platform and open-source efforts. He later helped found Sciety and establish their remote-first ensemble-programming team. Before joining PREreview, he also worked with Knowledge Futures to create the DocMaps framework. Chris is a keen advocate for sustainable and accessible web-based software, iteratively developed in close collaboration with the wider team.
Former Staff
Arturo Garduño-Magaña (he/him) – Open Grant Reviewers Program Manager and Trainer
Arturo worked with PREreview from February 2022 to July 2023 as the Open Grant Reviewers Program Manager and Trainer. In that role, he led the design and delivery of Open Grant Reviewers, a program part of the Open and Equitable Funding Model Program, developed in close collaboration with the Open Research Founders Group and the Health Research Alliance. Arturo is now working at DataCite as the Regional Engagement Specialist, Latin America.
Antoinette Foster, Ph.D.(she/her) – Open Reviewers Program Manager
Antoinette Foster has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and is passionate about establishing racial equity within the scientific enterprise. Antoinette joined the PREreview team in January 2020 and was instrumental in creating the PREreview Open Reviewers training and mentoring program and running its pilot, giving special attention to bringing an equity lens to the curriculum and format. Antoinette is now the Director of Community Transformation at Oregon Health and Science University, where she aims to directly impact internalized and interpersonal racism by empowering her community to become active agents of change.
Katrina Murphy (she/her) – Project Manager
Katrina joined the PREreview team in April 2020 and stayed with us as PREreview Project Manager until October 2021. During her time with us, Katrina has not only helped our small team manage and deliver on the work we were set to do across programs and collaborations, but has also played a central role in organizing ourr first cohort of the PREreview Open Reviewers training and mentoring program. Katrina is also a yoga teacher and has now moved on to dedicate her full self to her life passion at the intersection of conventional and integrative healthcare practices.
Advisory Committee
In addition to the Leadership Team, PREreview Advisory Committee (AC) is composed of 4 additional members.
PREreview’s Advisory Committee is responsible for hiring and evaluating the Executive Director and the rest of the Leadership Team, providing financial oversight, and advising on strategic planning, fundraising, and business models. Additionally, members of the AC serve as advocates and ambassadors for the organization, leveraging their networks to benefit the organization’s reputation and long-term financial sustainability. The AC executes these responsibilities through meetings, regular correspondence, and collaboration via email and online platforms.
Sarah Greaves – STM Publishing Consultant
Sarah has over 20 years of experience within STM editorial and publishing. She was originally an academic researcher, completing her PhD at the MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, before joining the editorial team at Nature Cell Biology in 1999. After 4 years working within editorial she moved into the Nature publishing team and was the Publisher for Nature for many years. During her time at Nature Publishing Group (now Springer Nature) Sarah also launched the first Nature branded title with an Open Access option, Nature Communications, and subsequently launched Scientific Reports. Sarah was the Chief Publishing Officer at Hindawi during which time she consolidated the portfolio and implemented new Editorial models. Throughout her career, she has focused on creating innovative new products and services aimed at solving key researcher pain points whilst ensuring the academic scientist remains at the heart of any publishing decision. Sarah is involved in numerous STEM outreach initiatives, is currently a volunteer with InToUniversity and is working alongside numerous industry colleagues to drive forward the C19 Rapid Review group.
Kristen Ratan – Founder and Director at Stratos
Kristen Ratan founded Strategies for Open Science (Stratos) to synthesize open science efforts into a cohesive movement. Kristen has a 20-year history of working to accelerate advances in science and research communication with a focus on open science. She co-founded the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation, was the Publisher at the Public Library of Science (PLOS), and held leadership positions at HighWire Press, Atypon, and BIOSIS. Kristen is on the board of the American Institute of Physics Publishing, the Code for Science and Society, and ASAPbio. In addition to PREreview, she holds advisory board positions at MIT Press and Stencila.
PREreview is in the process of recruiting 2 additional members. Updates on this process coming soon.
Former Advisory Committee Members
- Lenny Teytelman, Ph.D. – CEO, Co-Founder, protocols.io (12/2019–07/2023)
- Georgia Bullen – Executive Director, Superbloom (04/2020–10/2021)
- Naomi Penfold, Ph.D. – Researcher | Data scientist (01/2020-10/2020)
This post was last updated on March 12, 2024.