Marc-André Simard (he/him) 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.

In addition, Marc-André is a researcher at the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication, Université de Montréal (CRC EBSI). He is also a member of the Quantiative Social Sciences Lab (QSS) at Dalhousie University, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST), and the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS/ACSI). He also recently completed an internship in Science Policy and Partnerships at UNESCO (Paris).

Prior to that, Marc-André completed a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy at Université Laval and a master’s degree in Information Science at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Vincent Larivière. His master’s thesis focused on differences in dissemination and use of open access literature at the national level.

A list of Marc-Andre’s publications can be found on his Google Scholar and ORCID pages. Find him on Twitter at @M_Simard_.