Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is Head of Data and HSS Publishing at Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan, where his responsibilities include developing new areas of open research publishing and data policy, such as Scientific Data, Palgrave Communications, and open access monographs

Andrew is currently the Managing Editor of Scientific Data, where he develops the editorial content of the journal, and works to promote wider data sharing. Andrew received his PhD from Stanford University, and did postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute.

Susanna is Associate Director at the University of Oxford e-Research Centre, and works at Nature Publishing Group as a data consultant and Honorary Academic Editor for Scientific Data. As Principal Investigator at the Centre, Susanna’s activities focus upon data curation, management and publication.

Timo Hannay is Managing Director of Digital Science. Before that he worked at Nature Publishing Group, where he was director of nature.com. He has previously been a research neurophysiologist (in Oxford and Tokyo), a management consultant (McKinsey & Co.) and a journalist (The Economist and Nature).

Jeremy Frey obtained his DPhil on experimental and theoretical aspects of van der Waals complexes in the Physical Chemistry Labs, Oxford University, followed by a NATO/EPSRC fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and University of California.

Matt chairs the CTU Protocol Review Committee and is part of the Standard Operating Procedure Committee. Externally, Matt is a member of the NCRI Prostate Cancer Clinical Studies Group (CSG) and sits on the Bone Subgroup of the NCRI Sarcoma CSG.

Joerg joined Nature Publishing Group in 2005 as an editor for Nature Materials, where he handled a broad range of physics and materials science manuscripts, before moving to Nature Communications in October 2012.

Dr Birney is Joint Associate Director of EMBL - EBI and runs a small research group. He is also Interim Head of the Centre for Therapeutic Target Validation. Together with Dr Rolf Apweiler, he has strategic responsibility and oversight for bioinformatics services at EMBL - EBI. 

Dr Khodiyar is Data Curation Editor for the Nature Publishing Group journal Scientific Data. She specialises in the processing, creation and formatting of data associated with the journal's Data Descriptors. She is also responsible for the outreach to, and continued communication with, data repositories serving all subject areas covered by the journal.

Dr Takeda's current focus is helping researchers take best advantage of cloud computing.He has extensive experience in Cloud Computing, High Performance and High Productivity Computing, Data-intensive Science, Scientific Workflows, Scholarly Communication, Engineering and Educational Outreach.

Dr Reddington has responsibility for the CRUK research portfolio in the areas of population research, prevention and early diagnosis. She also represents the charity on matters relating to data sharing and the management boards of a number of external initiatives

Dr Stephen Eglen
Reader in Computational Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Stephen Eglen joined the Mathematics faculty at Cambridge in 2004 and studies the development of the nervous system. He has a long standing interest in open access to scientific materials, in particular scientific computer programs.