About Me

I am the Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University in Ames, IA, and a Research Associate with the ScholCommLab at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

I am also a PhD candidate (Buitenpromovendus) at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, Netherlands under the supervision of Drs. Ludo Waltman and Thomas Franssen, expected 2030.

My research focuses on academic publishing, bibliometrics, scholarly communication, and open science. I have published on the amount of article processing charges paid by the scholarly community [1], possible federal funding caps [2], impacts of the 2022 OSTP memo [2], and using Unsub to make collection development decisions [3].

I’ve also been an expert consultant to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy [4], PI on an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant [5], a researcher on a Volkswagen Foundation grant [6], and a consultant on an NSF grant [7].

And in 2026, I won the New Yorker cartoon caption contest #995!

Prior to my current role at Iowa State, I worked at Intel for 10 years on NAND flash memory [8].

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