People
The ScholCommLab is home to visiting faculty, postdocs, and students, as well as research collaborators from across the world.
Directors
Juan Pablo Alperin
Juan Pablo Alperin is a co-director of the ScholCommLab, as well as an associate professor at the Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing and an associate director of research of the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Stefanie Haustein
Stefanie Haustein is a co-director of the ScholCommLab as well as an associate professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on social media in scholarly communication, bibliometrics, and altmetrics.
Research Associates
Rukhsana Ahmed
Rukhsana Ahmed is associate professor and chair in the Department of Communication and research associate at the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.
Germana Barata
Germana Barata is a science communication researcher at the Laboratory of Advanced Studies in Journalism and the Centre for the Development of Creativity at the University of Campinas, Brazil.
Sanam Ebrahimzadeh
Sanam Ebrahimzadeh is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, where her research focuses on systematic reviews and academic promotion and assessment criteria. She is also affiliated with the Scholarly Communication Lab, University of Ottawa, where she works on scholarly metrics.
Lauren Maggio
Lauren Maggio is a professor of medicine and the associate director of scholarly communication for the Center for Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the United States.
Mario Malički
After finishing School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, Mario Malički obtained an MA in Literature and Medicine at King’s College, London, UK. He then worked at the University of Split School of Medicine in Departments of Medical Humanities and Research in biomedicine and health, where he obtained his PhD in Medical Ethics titled Integrity of scientific publications in biomedicine.
Laura Moorhead
Laura Moorhead is an assistant professor at San Francisco State University’s Journalism Department. She works to improve professional and educational practices in the areas of access to research and health information and media and information literacy.
Anton Boudreau Ninkov
Anton Boudreau Ninkov is a professeur adjoint at l’école de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) at l’Université de Montréal and a research associate at the ScholCommLab. Anton’s research focuses on visual analytics systems as well as bibliometrics and webometrics.
Isabella Peters
Dr. Isabella Peters is professor of Web Science at ZBW Leibniz-Information Center for Economics and Kiel University, Germany. She studies user-generated content and social media in scholarly communication and other use cases, altmetrics, data citations, and open access, as well as other open science practices.
Katherine Reilly
Katherine Reilly is associate professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Broadly speaking, her work focuses on the role of communications in international relations and international development.
Michelle Riedlinger
Michelle Riedlinger is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Her research focuses on the communication of environmental science, health research, and risk assessment.
Saskia van Walsum
Saskia van Walsum is a future research librarian at Statistics Canada and PhD student at the School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at uOttawa, under the supervision of Stefanie Haustein.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Noha Atef
Noha Atef is postdoctoral media researcher with a professional background in the press, broadcast journalism, and online media. Her postdoctoral research focuses on social media, citizen media, emerging trends in journalism, the political economy of communication, and media studies.
Natascha Chtena
Natascha Chtena is a postdoctoral fellow in the Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University and a research coordinator for the VOICES project (Value of Openness, Inclusion, Communication, and Engagement for Science in a Post-Pandemic World) at the ScholCommLab.
Isabelle Dorsch
Isabelle Dorsch is a postdoctoral fellow at the ScholCommLab, working on the VOICES project (Value of Openness, Inclusion, Communication, and Engagement for Science in a Post-Pandemic World), and the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Kiel, Germany.
Kathleen Gregory
Kathleen Gregory is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa and at the University of Vienna. Her research explores how people discover, communicate, understand, and use data in academia and in public life.
Students
Olivia Aguiar
Olivia Aguiar is a lab manager at the ScholCommLab and a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University’s Injury Prevention and Mobility Lab (IPML). Her research uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to understand how and why head acceleration events occur in ice hockey.
Fatou Bah
Fatou Bah is a Data Support Specialist, Research Data Management at the University of Ottawa library, a part time student of uOttawa’s School of Information Studies (ÉSIS), and a researcher in the ScholCommLab.
Leigh-Ann Butler
Leigh-Ann Butler is a part-time master’s student at uOttawa’s School of Information Studies (ÉSIS), working on her thesis with supervisor Stefanie Haustein. Her research explores the economics of open access publishing.
Asura Enkhbayar
Asura Enkhbayar is an Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies PhD student and data scientist at the ScholCommLab working under the supervision of Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin. He is interested in critically exploring the infrastructure of scholarly communication in the 21st century at the intersection of philosophy and technology.
Alice Fleerackers
Alice Fleerackers (she/her) is a researcher at the ScholCommLab and a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University’s Interdisciplinary Studies program, where she works under the supervision of Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin to explore how health science is communicated online.
Lina Harper
Lina Harper (she/they) is currently completing a master’s thesis in Information Studies at the University of Ottawa (2022) under thesis supervisor Dr. Stefanie Haustein. Her research focuses on research data reuse among digital humanities scholars.
Michelle La
Michelle La works as a qualitative analyst on the ScholCommLab’s Review, Promotion, and Tenure Project. Her graduate research investigates the economic practices and spaces of sneaker reselling by focusing on risk and speculation amongst traders in Metro Vancouver.
Jamie Lundine
Jamie Lundine is a PhD candidate in Feminist and Gender Studies at University of Ottawa and member of the ScholCommLab. The central question that animates her doctoral research is whose knowledge counts?
Esteban Morales
Esteban Morales works as a qualitative researcher on the ScholCommLab’s Review, Promotion, and Tenure and Hypothes.is projects. His main research interest is how data and media literacies relate to the notion of citizenship in students, especially in countries such as his home country, Colombia, that are facing the end of a conflict.
Chantal Ripp
Chantal Ripp is a doctoral student in the Digital Campus Transformation and Innovation Program, under the supervision of Stefanie Haustein, and research librarian at the University of Ottawa.
Emma Roblin
Emma Roblin is a first-year master’s student at the School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at the University of Ottawa. She has as an undergraduate degree in Linguistics from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and has worked in the non-profit arts sector.
Cecilia Rozemblum
Cecilia Rozemblum holds a degree in librarianship and documentation from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) and a master’s in science, technology, and society from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ), where she is currently working on a PhD in science and technology.
Marta Samokishyn
Marta Samokishyn is a doctoral student in the Digital Transformation and Innovation program at the University of Ottawa (UOttawa), under the supervision of Stefanie Haustein and André Vellino. Her research interests include algorithmic literacy, educational technologies, and critical digital pedagogy.
Marc-André Simard
Marc-André Simard is a PhD student in Information Science at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI), Université de Montréal under the supervision of Vincent Larivière and Stefanie Haustein. His research focuses on bibliometrics, open science, and science policy.
Rémi Toupin
Rémi Toupin is a PhD candidate in science, technologie, et société at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His work focuses on social media use for public engagement with science, especially surrounding environmental issues.
Heather Woods
Heather Woods is a part-time professor and doctoral candidate, under the supervision of Dr. David Smith, in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. Her work explores how social and emotional learning is enacted and evolves within Canadian schools through research, policy, and practice.
Huma Zafar
Huma Zafar is a programmer analyst at the University of Ottawa library, and a master’s student in the School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at uOttawa.
Research Assistants
Lucía Céspedes
Lucía Céspedes is a research assistant at the ScholCommLab, where she is working on a project with Lauren Maggio on the physicians’ use of social media to combat health misinformation online.
Anne Clinio
Dr. Anne Clinio (she/her) is an independent researcher, member of the Open Science and Citizen Innovation Laboratory (CindaLab) in Brazil, and Research Assistant at the ScholCommLab.
Maya Fisher
Maya Fisher (she/her) is a graduate student in the Master of Information Studies (MIS) program at the University of Ottawa and research assistant at the ScholCommLab.
Sarah Lawrance
Sarah Lawrance (they/them) is a graduate student in the Master of Information Studies (MIS) program at the University of Ottawa (UOttawa) and a Research Assistant on the Meaningful Data Counts project at the ScholCommLab.
Visiting Scholars
Diane (DeDe) Dawson
Diane (DeDe) Dawson is an Associate Librarian (Science and Scholarly Communication) at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada.
Lisa Matthias
Lisa Matthias is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, and a visiting scholar at the ScholCommLab.
Andrea Whiteley
Andrea Whiteley is a short-term postdoctoral researcher at the ScholCommLab working on a developmental evaluation of the Community Scholars Program.