Paul Shannon

Head of Technology & Innovation

Paul Shannon is Head of Technology & Innovation at eLife, a unique collaboration between the funders and practitioners of research to improve the way important research is selected, presented, and shared.  He’s responsible for the technology strategy at eLife ensuring the team are committed to openness in the products they produce to encourage broad change across the research communication landscape. He leads teams that produce eLife’s journal software and preprint review and curation application sciety.org, while managing collaborations with technology providers like the Coko Foundation to build Kotahi, an innovative peer review management and publishing platform.