Colleen Campbell

OA2020 Partner Development 

Max Planck Digital Library

Colleen Campbell is strategic advisor for external engagement at the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL). There she coordinates two open access initiatives: the Open Access 2020 Initiative, a global alliance of research organizations and their libraries that are repurposing their investments in subscriptions to support open access publishing, and the ESAC Initiative, a library community of practice building capacities around transformative and open access publishing agreements.

She is a member of the LIBER Open Access Working Group, serves on the Managing Board of EIFL, a not-for-profit organization that works with libraries to enable access to knowledge in developing and transition economy countries in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America, and contributes in the advisory groups of a number of other scholarly communication initiatives.

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Adjunct Lecturer at Alzahra University, 
Research and Technology Department

“Research Visibility and Impact” Freelancer Consultant

Nader Ale Ebrahim currently works as a “Research Visibility and Impact” freelancer consultant. Nader is also an adjunct lecturer at Alzahra University. His current research interests are University rankings, Open Access, Research visibility, Research Tools, and Bibliometrics.

Dr. Nader provides assistance and guidance for researchers in disseminating and promoting their research work to enhance their research visibility and impact and citations. He believes that the research cycle does not end with publications alone, thus he encourages pro-activeness in the dissemination of research outputs. Nader is well-known as the creator of the “Research Tools” Box. His teaching materials received over 500k views. He has been invited by numerous universities and research centers to conduct webinars/workshops.

Natalia Manola

CEO

OpenAIRE A.M.K.E

Natalia Manola holds a Physics degree from the University of Athens, and an MS in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has worked for several years as a Software Engineer and Architect in the Bioinformatics commercial sector.

She has expertise in Open Science policies and implementation, having served in the EOSC Executive Board 2019-20, and in the Open Science Policy Platform (2016-17), an EC High Level Advisory Group provide advice about the development and implementation of open science policy in Europe. 

Sami Çuhadar

Library Director, Istanbul Bilgi University

Sami Çuhadar completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Information and Document Management at Istanbul University and his BA in Economics at Anadolu University. He continues his PhD studies in Information and Document Management at Çankırı Karatekin University.

Sami Cuhadar is the Library Director at Istanbul Bilgi University Library and e-Resources in Istanbul, Turkey. He is also an academic staff at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law and teaches “Research Methods and Accessing Legal Information Resources” to the first year Law School students.

Mr. Çuhadar is also active in non-governmental organizations in the field of librarianship and information management. He is the former president and board member of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS) and coordinator of UNAK-Turkish Platform of Law Librarians. He has written and made studies on fields of total quality management, ranking of university libraries, online learning and university libraries. His current research focuses on legal information, information literacy, online education, university libraries, consortiums and ERM.

Şebnem Özdemir (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)

Istinye University Management Information Systems Department Head, Head of Data Science Department 

AIPA Board Member

MIT CSAIL Res. Coll.

Şebnem Özdemir received her bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Yıldız Technical University. She completed two master's degrees at Istanbul University, one in Mathematics Education and the other in Informatics. She received her PhD degree from Istanbul University, Department of Informatics. For his postdoctoral research, she was a researcher at the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). She then moved to MIT CSAIL, where she continued her work in the field of artificial intelligence. Özdemir is currently working at Istinye University, Department of Management Information Systems.

In 2016, with the machine learning model he developed, she was awarded the "Human Development Research Award" by Koç University UNESCO Chair, and in 2020, she was awarded the "Leader Creating Awareness in Artificial Intelligence Award" by CIO Turkey. She is the founder of Usight Software and Artificial Intelligence Technologies. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özdemir has worked as an executive, consultant and researcher in many national and international projects focused on data science and artificial intelligence. Assoc. Prof. Özdemir has many book chapters, articles and patents published in national and international platforms focused on data science and machine learning. Her main research interests are artificial intelligence, data science, management information systems, decision making and mathematical modeling.