Open Peer Review, Collaborative Preprint Review and Opportunities to Learn and Teach Others

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Speakers’ Profiles
Vanessa Fairhurst (she/her) – Head of Community, PREreview
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8511-8689
Vanessa joined the PREreview team in November 2022. She studied her undergraduate degree in European Languages and Business Management before going on to study her Master’s in Applied and Professional Ethics.

She began her career in academia working at international development organization INASP with a focus on improving access to scholarly information and research in developing countries. She then went on to support publishers around the world as Community Engagement Manager at Crossref building a global ambassador team and collaborating with others to ensure that scholarly research metadata is registered, linked, and distributed.

Openness, accessibility, and equity have always been central to Vanessa’s work, and she greatly enjoys supporting and empowering researchers to improve the research process in her role as Head of Community at PREreview.

Chad Sansing (he/him) – Head of Product, PREreview
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1472-1824
Chad joined the PREreview team in late October 2022. Prior to joining PREreview, he worked for the Mozilla Foundation in a variety of roles, most recently as a program manager on the MozFest team.

While at Mozilla, Chad worked on several projects including its web literacy curriculum, Open Leadership Framework, Open Leaders program, and community and program management for the MozFest Trustworthy AI Working Group and the Facilitator and Volunteer communities at MozFest.

Before that, Chad taught middle school for 14 years and helped found two small public schools for non-traditional learners. He is passionate about helping people discover their individual and shared capacities for social good and positive change. Outside work, you can find him reading, playing games, and hanging out with friends and family.

Dine Roseline Dzekem, Founder, Rwanda Preprint Club
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8210-9258
Miss Dine Roseline Dzekem is a public health professional and social scientist in her early career. She has a background in sociology and anthropology from the University of Buea-Cameroon (2016) and a Master's degree in public health from the University of Rwanda (2019).

Her areas of interest have been Sub-Saharan African public health and social issues, such as infectious diseases, healthcare access, community engagement, and mobilization. Roseline created the Rwanda Preprint Club because she is particularly interested in open science and access.

Roseline intends to leverage her network and learning opportunities to produce culturally acceptable solutions and enhance health outcomes and scientific communication in African communities by combining her skills in implementation research and community involvement.

Lamis Yahia Mohamed Elkheir, Lecturer at the University of Khartoum and a Co-Director of the African Reproducibility Network (AREN).
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3516-334X

Lamis Yahia Mohamed Elkheir is a Lecturer at the University of Khartoum and a Co-Director of the African Reproducibility Network (AREN). Currently finalizing her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry, Lamis also holds a Master of Science in Molecular Medicine and a Bachelor of Pharmacy.

She is a dedicated Research Assistant at the Mycetoma Research Center, focusing on pioneering drug discoveries for Neglected Tropical Diseases that heavily impact her community. Lamis's academic and professional endeavours are driven by her profound commitment to advancing open science and enhancing science communication. She tirelessly works towards bridging the global equity gap in scientific knowledge and fostering an inclusive, accessible scientific community across Africa.

Ebuka Ezeike, Project Manager, Access 2 Perspectives and AfricArXiv
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3452-0306

Ebuka Ezeike is a physicist from the Federal University of Technology Minna, in Niger state, Nigeria.
With a background in physics and over half a decade of experience as an educator in the field, Ebuka brings a wealth of knowledge to his endeavors. His expertise extends to freelance work, where he delivers writing services, including articles and blog posts.

Additionally, he manages two academic podcast shows refining audio and video content, including transcriptions.

Passionate about open science hardware, Ebuka Ezeike has been an active member of the Africa Open Science Hardware (AfricaOSH) and the Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) communities since 2022. In collaboration with GOSH, he organized an impactful open science hardware workshop in 2023, held in Abuja, Nigeria.

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