Juan Pablo Alperin

Juan Pablo Alperin is an Associate Professor at the School of Publishing and the co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab at Simon Fraser University (Canada). He is best known as a leading voice in the open access (OA) and open science (OS) communities who can intermediate between the Latin American experiences and the discussions about OA and OS worldwide. Dr. Alperin is also the co-Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), a research project whose software, Open Journal Systems, has become the most widely used Open Access publishing platform in the world and has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades.