Cameron Neylon

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Cameron Neylon
Cameron Neylon in 2013 at the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8).jpg
Cameron Neylon in 2013
Born David Cameron Neylon
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Thesis Towards the directed molecular evolution of DNA-binding specificity (1999)
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Notable awards Blue Obelisk award (2010)
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David Cameron Neylon is an advocate for open access and Professor of Research Communications at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University.[3][4] From 2012 - 2015 he was the Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science.[2][5][6][7][8]

Education

Neylon was educated at the University of Western Australia[citation needed] and the Australian National University where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biophysics in 1999 for work on directed molecular evolution and DNA-binding specificity.[9][10]

Career

In 2009 Neylon was a senior scientist at the ISIS neutron source of the Science and Technology Facilities Council.[11] From 2012 to 2015 he served as director of advocacy at the Public Library of Science.[12] He joined The Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University in 2015 as Professor of Research Communications.[3][4]

Neylon is an original drafter of the Panton Principles and opposed the Research Works Act[13] and advocates for governmental encouragement for researchers to use open access licensing.[14][15]

Neylon advocates for the use of altmetrics in determining the impact of scholarly publications.[16][17] Neylon is part of Flooved Advisory Board.

Awards and honours

In 2010 he accepted a Blue Obelisk award.[18]

References

  1. ↑ Cameron Neylon's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
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