WikiJournal of Science/sandbox
Thomas Shafee
From: 30 October 2017
Fields: biochemistry, protein evolution, bioinformatics, convergent evolution, protein engineering, experimental evolution, data science, data visualization, science communication
Dr Thomas Shafee is an evolutionary biochemist researching antimicrobial proteins at the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, Melbourne, Australia. He is particularly interested in how protein superfamilies evolve and how that information can be used to engineer proteins for human uses.
Felipe Schenone
From: 5 November 2017 to 2 August 2022
Fields: wiki, logic, philosophy, MediaWiki
Felipe Schenone is a philosopher and logician by training, web developer and wiki-expert by trade. Contributor to Wikipedia and other wikis since 2008, he believes that science and academia should ditch paid journals and embrace open knowledge.
Henry Hoff
From: 5 November 2017
Fields: physics, mathematics, geology, materials science, mineralogy, high temperature superconductor, radiation, spectroscopy, surface science, astrophysics, metallurgy, electronics, diffusion, crystallography, polarization, metallography, microanalysis, physical chemistry, pyrometer, crystal growth, alloying, material defect, electrical resistivity, electron microscopy, actinide, ferromagnetism, transmission electron microscope, X-ray spectroscopy, insulator, Electron diffraction, crystal structure, crystal chemistry, doping, casting, optical microscopy, temperature, fracture, phase, calibration, lattice, grain growth, irradiation, surface roughness, superconductivity, fractography, mathematical model, thin film, electric current
My original research efforts have been performed through participation per numerous grants from the USA Department of Energy at Argonne National Laboratory and Department of Defense at the Naval Research Laboratory.
W. Brian Whalley
From: 5 November 2017
Fields: geomorphology, glacial geology, sediment, weathering, pedagogy
Markus Pössel
From: 5 November 2017
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: astrophysics, astronomy, general relativity
Markus Pössel is Managing Scientist at Haus der Astronomie, Heidelberg's Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach. He has helped to bring general relativity and introduction to general relativity, among other articles, to Featured Article status.
Ian Alexander
From: 5 November 2017
Fields: requirements engineering, biology, history and philosophy of science
Ian Alexander is a retired systems engineer who has helped to bring over 100 Wikipedia articles on biology, and its history and philosophy, to 'Good Article' status.
Florian Weller
From: 24 November 2017 to 12 September 2022
Fields: zoology, conservation biology, ecosystem model, paleontology, geology
Dr Florian Weller is an ecologist working with population models of endangered species, currently at the University of Cape Town.
Sylvain Ribault
From: 24 November 2017 to 24 January 2023
Fields: mathematical physics, theoretical physics, mathematics
Sylvain Ribault is a researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Saclay. He sometimes blogs on the subjects of scientific publishing and conformal field theory.
Melanie Stefan
From: 24 November 2017
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: computational biology, biochemistry, neurobiology, statistics
Melanie Stefan is an Edinburgh-Zhejiang lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, whose research group focuses on using computational tools to understand learning and memory.
Jack Nunn
From: 24 November 2017
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: participatory research, public health genomics
Jack Nunn is a researcher in the Department of Public Health at La Trobe University. His research is in creating and evaluating equitable and ethical ways for people to participate in all aspects of research and science. Jack is currently a PhD candidate exploring genomics research and ways of involving people. Jack is the founder and Director of the not-for-profit education organisation 'Science for All'.
Sridhar Gutam
From: 24 November 2017
Fields: plant physiology, agricultural science, horticultural science
Guy Vandegrift
From: 5 November 2017
Fields: physics, engineering, mathematics
Guy Vandegrift teaches physics and astronomy at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, and is currently working to develop Quizbank.
Thijs van Vlijmen
From: 6 March 2018
Fields: cell biology, protein science
Dr. Thijs van Vlijmen completed his Ph.D. at Utrecht University in the Department of Cell Biology in the University Medical Center Utrecht in 2008. After that he started working at Springer Science+Business Media as a publishing editor. He is currently Associate Editorial Director for Australia and New Zealand at Taylor & Francis.
Kelee Pacion
From: 21 April 2018
Additionally: social media manager
Fields: instructional design, science communication, research, education, research policy
Kelee Pacion is the Biology and Environmental Sciences Librarian at Princeton University. Her interests are science communication, information literacy, and education.
Edmund Palermo
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: polymer, biomaterial, biomimetics
Ed Palermo is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY). His interests are in polymer science and biomaterials.
Tina Qin
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: e-Science, scholarly communication, cheminformatics
Tina Qin is the science and engineering librarian and lecturer at Department of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University. She is particular interested in e-Science, scholarly communication and chemical informatics.
Loren Cobb
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: applied mathematics, simulation, statistics, sociology, Economics, political science, computer science
Paula Diaconescu
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, catalysis, polymer
Paula Diaconescu is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research group focuses on switchable catalysis, a new area of chemistry inspired by nature’s sensory processes. Switchable catalysts use external triggers in order to toggle between multiple species with different reactivity.
Andrew Leung
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: climatology, atmospheric sciences, aviation
Andrew Leung is a climatologist working at Environment and Climate Change Canada. He is a contributor to Wikipedia and many of its sister projects.
José Lages
From: 21 April 2018
Fields: theoretical physics
José Lages is an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. His recent researches focus on Chaos in Quantum Physics, Chaos in Astrophysics, and Complex Networks. He co-invented the Wikipedia Ranking of World Universities obtained from the statistical analysis of Wikipedia articles network for different language editions.
Thais C. Morata
From: 20 May 2018 to 21 January 2023
Fields: public health, occupational health, hearing science, communication studies, communication disorder
Thais Morata is a Research Audiologist at the US NIOSH and coordinator of the NORA Manufacturing Sector Council. She created the Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Awards™, is a founding associate editor for the International Journal of Audiology, and a founding editor of the Cochrane Work Review Group. She co-instructs several graduate classes and promotes the Wiki Edu platform.
Jonathan Holland
From: 20 May 2018
Fields: mathematical analysis, differential geometry, general relativity, twistor theory
Vinod Scaria
From: 20 May 2018
Fields: genomics, genome informatics, RNA
Edward Baker
From: 31 January 2019
Fields: taxonomy, zoological nomenclature, biodiversity informatics, bioacoustics
Ed Baker is an orthopterist and bioacoustician at the University of York, and Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum, London.
Scott Thomson
From: 19 June 2019
Fields: zoology, paleontology, taxonomy, zoological nomenclature, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, turtle, conservation science
Herpetologist, taxonomist and paleontologist with a major interest in nomenclature and the development of good science through best practices, good publishing methods and teaching as well as a multidisciplinary approach.
Mad Ball
From: 11 December 2019
Fields: open science, citizen science, participatory research, genetics, biotechnology, health research
Trained in biotech, now highly interdisciplinary focus on empowering individuals & community to take an active role in leading and contributing to research about themselves.
Jeff Lundeen
From: 28 January 2020
Fields: physics, metrology, optics, quantum information, quantum metrology, photonics, fundamental science
Jeff Lundeen is the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Photonics. He heads an experimental laboratory at the University of Ottawa that uses photons to study the unique characteristics of quantum physics, to carry information for quantum computing, and to build quantum-enhanced sensing and measurement devices.
Rosemary Redfield
From: 3 May 2020
Fields: microbiology, genetics, evolution
30 years as faculty at University of British Columbia (research, teaching) - Publications.
Yulia Sevryugina
From: 16 August 2020
Fields: data science, cheminformatics, information science, crystallography, inorganic chemistry, chemistry education
Research career in chemistry: coordination chemistry, small molecule crystallography, medicinal, and boron chemistry. As faculty at TCU, I was leading a research group in the the development of dopamine targeting drugs. Currently, at the University of Michigan, my research interests are in data science and scientometrics as related to chemistry and biomedical research.
Moritz Schubotz
From: 16 August 2020
Fields: computer science, digital library
Moritz Schubotz and his group research on Mathematical Information Retrieval at the Department of Mathematics at FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. His main interests are: research, teaching, building research infrastructure, establish a FAIR scholary practice.
Jong Bhak
Fields: bioinformatics, genomics, geromics
Previous board members
Mikael Häggström
(Adviser)
Fields: Medicine, radiology
Michael Umbricht
Fields: Astronomy, history of science
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Fields: Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, genomics