Country of Residence
Discipline(s)
Institution
IGDORE
Bali, Indonesia
Research Interests
Open Science, Peer Review, Scholarly Communication, Palaeontology
Topics to speak on:
Open Science
It is only in the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Biography
Jon sadly passed away in April 2020.
Jon had completed his award-winning PhD at Imperial College London where he researched evolutionary patterns in animals like dinosaurs and crocodiles. He was the Communications Director of ScienceOpen for 2 years, but has spent the last year until his decease as an independent researcher. He is the founder of the Open Science MOOC, and the digital publishing platform paleorXiv. He has spent much of his time challenging the business practices of the scholarly publishing industry, including formal complaints to the European Commission, and working with Education International on a global campaign to democratise knowledge. He has been a Shuttleworth Flash grantee, and has also won an award for this work on peer review. As well as this, Jon was the lead author of the Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development, co-author for the Open Science Training Handbook, and the Executive Editor for the OA journal Geoscience Communication. He has also written several kids books on dinosaurs.
Awards
Shuttleworth Flash Grant
Jean-Claude Guedon award for peer review
IGDORE travel award to Bali