Anita de Waard
Vice President, Research Collaborations, Elsevier
Anita de Waard (she/her) has a background in experimental physics. She joined Elsevier as publisher in physics and neurology in 1988, and currently works as a VP for research collaborations, with a focus on establishing collaborations between Elsevier and academic groups in information and computer science. From January 2006 onwards, she has been working on this topic as a part-time researcher at the University of Utrecht, funded by a Casimir project grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. She is a co-founder of Force11, a multi-stakeholder organisation to invent the future of scholarly communications, and since 2020 has helped lead a series of conferences on Scholarly Document Processing.
Specialties: Science publishing innovation, semantic structuring; annotation standards; new forms of publishing; prejudice and presumption in scientific knowledge creation; discourse analysis of scientific text.