Kamila Markram co-founded Frontiers in 2007 with a mission to improve academic publishing and the dissemination of articles.
Ahead of ESOF 2014, we talk to three leading figures in science, technology and academia who through frustrations of not having the effective tools necessary to do their work, decided to build their own.
In this three-part series in the run-up to Europe’s largest, general science meeting held every two years, this year in Copenhagen (June 21-26), we look at the increasing number of start-up companies that are “spinning out” of academic institutions worldwide.
Here, the co-founder and CEO of Frontiers, Kamila Markram talks about the growing numbers of academics starting companies as a result of frustrations and advances in open science.
Kamila’s Background:
Kamila Markram is a neuroscientist, autism researcher and co-founder and CEO of Frontiers, an open-access publisher and research network. Frontiers innovates in peer review, article-level metrics, post-publication review, research networking and a growing ecosystem of open-science tools. With over 20,000 articles published in 47 community-run journals across 29 STM fields and 50,000 researchers on its editorial boards, Frontiers is the fourth leading open-access publisher worldwide. In 2013, Frontiers joined the Nature Publishing Group family in a partnership to advance Open Science.