Biography

Véronique Kiermer is Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS, the Public Library of Science, where she oversees the editorial department and the development of services, products and policies to promote open science. Before joining PLOS in 2015, she was Executive Editor and Director of Author and Reviewer Services for Nature Publishing Group. In that capacity she oversaw editorial and research integrity policies across the Nature journals. She started her career in publishing as the founding Chief Editor of Nature Methods and subsequently took on publishing responsibility for the title and other online products. Véronique has a PhD in molecular biology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her postdoctoral work was in the laboratory of Dr Eric Verdin at the Gladstone Institute, University of California, San Francisco, studying the transcriptional regulation of HIV. She worked on gene therapy projects at the biotechnology company Cell Genesys before moving into publishing in 2004. She has served on the Board of Directors of ORCID, from 2016 to 2021, and as its chair from February 2017 to February 2020. In 2019, she joined the Keystone Symposia Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board. In 2020 she became an advisor for PREreview and since 2022, she serves on the EMBL-EBI Literature Services/Biostudies Scientific Advisory Board. Since 2021, she is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences Strategic Council on Research Excellence, Integrity and Trust.