Prof . Subbiah Arunachalam

Visiting Professor

Arunachalam Subbiah is currently a Visiting Professor at the DST Centre for Science Policy, Indian Institute of Science. Their current project is 'Evaluating India's research performance in different fields'. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Internet & Society, Bangalore. Earlier, he was a Distinguished Fellow at the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, for 12 years (1996-2008), where he was a key member of the ICT-enabled development project. His main areas of research are scientometrics, scholarly communication (particularly open access and improving access to information in the developing world).

Prof . Maresi Nerad

Visiting Professor

Maresi Nerad is the founding director of the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and a Professor for Higher Education, College of Education, at the University of Washington, Seattle and an affiliated professor at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) at the University of California, Berkeley. A native of Germany, Dr. Nerad received her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley; directed research in the central Graduate Division of UC Berkeley, served as Dean in Residence at the Council of Graduate Schools, D.C. (the professional association of US Graduate Deans), and as Associate Dean of the UW central Graduate School.

Madhan Muthu

Visiting Scholar

Madhan is a librarian by profession and he has more than 20 years experience in research and academic librarianship. His research interests are scientometrics, and open access to scholarly publications. His other interests are open data, open educational resources and library technologies.