Dr Tiberius Ignat
SKS Knowledge Services (Munich, Germany)
Tiberius Ignat is the Director of SKS Knowledge Services. He runs in partnership with UCL Press and LIBER Europe a series of workshops - Focus On Open Science. After being an individual member of LIBER, he became a LIBER Associate. Tiberius is a member of the European Citizen Science Association and Citizen Science Association (US) and sits on the Scientific Committee for OAI, the Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication. Tiberius was part of the organising committee of the Sorbonne Declaration on Research Data Rights. He created and launched the BESPOC prototype for citizen science single point of contact at universities and is currently doing research on internet tracking in a project which involves citizen scientists. He has a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Bucharest. He lives in Munich (Germany) with his wife and two children. In his spare time, he enjoys doing callisthenics and competing in Ninja Warrior contests.
Chair of OAI13 Session 1: Academic Publishing Reform. What does the future hold?