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Five reasons transformative science needs to be open to the world
The world is facing existential risks to us all. Science can help us solve many of these challenges, but we need to invest in it, trust it and share it.
Kamila Markram
Kamila Markram is the co-founder and CEO of Frontiers a leading research publisher, on a mission to make science openly accessible to the world and thereby accelerating innovation for healthy lives on a healthy planet. Frontiers published over 3 million authors and research articles were cited more than 10 million times and viewed over 4 billion times.
She also launched initiatives like Frontiers for Young Minds, a journal which engages children in reviewing scientific articles, and the Frontiers Planet Prize, a global competition that rewards and funds groundbreaking research to maintain planetary health.
Kamila holds an MSc in Psychology from the Technical University of Berlin, did her Master thesis at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and obtained an award-winning PhD in Neuroscience from the Swiss Federal Institute Lausanne. Her groundbreaking "Intense World Theory of Autism" was featured in popular science magazines and was subject of a book about her family, The Boy Who Felt Too Much.
Her leadership and innovation have earned her numerous accolades, including recognition by L’HEBDO Forum 100 and the EU Prize for Women Innovators.
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