BIOGRAPHIES
Meredith LeMasurier
EVP, Publisher Market, Digital Science
Meredith joined Digital Science in April 2025 as EVP, Publisher Market, where she focuses on delivering solutions that meet the evolving needs of the research publishing industry. Prior to Digital Science, Meredith held Editorial and Publishing roles at Elsevier, Springer Nature and Taylor & Francis. She began her career in the Editorial realm, handling content for the Cell Press journal Neuron. She then moved into business leadership roles, focusing on building portfolios of journals. During her tenure as VP of Fully Open Access Journals at Springer Nature, she worked to deliver open publishing options for the global research community. Meredith is a champion for editorial quality and is passionate about increasing access to research to drive further progress.
Alice Meadows
Open Research Consulting/Independent Consultant
Alice is an independent consultant specializing in open research and collaborating with Open Research Ecosystem Consulting, having co-founded MoreBrains Cooperative. Her career spans scholarly publishing (Blackwell/Wiley) and research infrastructures, including roles at ORCID and NISO. Actively involved in the scholarly communications community, she was SSP President in 2021-22 and writes for Scholarly Kitchen. Alice champions a robust, open global research infrastructure, focusing on metadata and workflows, and is committed to improving DEI&A in scholarly communications and society.
Julia Mullen
Books Administrator, Editorial, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
At ASCE Julia supports the development and production of scholarly books and conference proceedings. Her role spans editorial review, workflow coordination, and guiding authors and editors through the publication process to ensure high-quality, accessible, and value-driven content. Julia joined ASCE shortly after graduating from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and as an early-career professional, she is passionate about advancing ethical and inclusive practices in scholarly publishing. She was recently a Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Fellow and has contributed to industry conversations regarding her research on building ethical infrastructure for peer review as a presenter at the 15th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference and as an author for CSE Science Editor.
Tyler Ruse
Director, Publisher Solutions, Digital Science
Tyler joined Digital Science in 2017 and spends most of his time helping publishers get business value out of data-focused products. Tyler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado, and has been working with scholarly, trade, and education publishers for more than twenty years. Over these two decades, Tyler has held leadership and technology roles at RR Donnelley, LibreDigital, Ingram Content Group, and OCLC in addition to the previous 7 years at Digital Science. Tyler currently lives and works in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Kristina Vrouwenvelder
Assistant Director, Publications, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Dr. Kristina Vrouwenvelder is Assistant Director, Publications at the nonprofit American Geophysical Union, where she manages the cross-disciplinary journal AGU Advances and the Community Science Exchange and supports strategy, research impact, and open data and software across AGU’s 24 journals. She is a co-lead of the AGU team supporting work on guidelines for the governance of Indigenous data in scholarly publishing.