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I currently serve on the Advisory Boards of Altmetric.com, the Climate Code Foundation, IDRC funded Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network, and the Board of Directors of FORCE11, and have previously served on the Board of Directors for Crossref (as PLOS second representative) and ImpactStory, the Advisory Group of the AHRC funded DART Archeological Residues project, and on the Editorial Boards for Open Research Computation and PLOS ONE.
I am currently employed part time by Curtin University and otherwise work as a freelance consultant. I have in the past five years been employed full time by PLOS and by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council and prior to that by the University’s of Southampton and Bath. I have not received any salary from any other organization in the past five years. I hold a UK-based Stakeholder Pension, UK Civil Service and University Superannuation Scheme pensions (and I ought to rationalise them somehow).