Rate My Professor Cameron Neylon

Cameron Neylon is Professor of Research Communication at the Centre for Culture and Technology within Curtin University's Faculty of Humanities. He earned a BSc from the University of Western Australia and a PhD in Biophysics from the Australian National University in 1999, with his thesis titled "Towards the directed molecular evolution of DNA-binding specificity." Neylon's early career focused on structural biology and biophysics. He held a tenured faculty position at the University of Southampton and served as Senior Scientist in Biological Sciences at the Science and Technology Facilities Council, including work at the ISIS neutron source. A key publication from this period is "Small angle neutron and X-ray scattering in structural biology: recent examples from the literature," published in the European Biophysics Journal in 2008.

From 2012 to 2015, Neylon was Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science. He joined Curtin University in 2015 as Professor of Research Communication and co-led the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative, a multi-million dollar project analyzing the future of universities in a networked world. He also served as Director of KU Research and holds the position of COKI External Business Associate in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. Neylon's research interests encompass research institutions, open knowledge, academic culture, and the political economy of research communications. Notable publications include "Meta-Research: Evaluating the impact of open access policies on research institutions" in eLife (2020), co-authored with Chun-Kai Huang and others, and "Open access research outputs receive more diverse citations" (2024). He is the original drafter of the Panton Principles promoting open data, co-author of the Altmetrics Manifesto, and co-author of the Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures. Neylon received the Blue Obelisk award in 2010 for contributions to open data and was named a SPARC Innovator in the same year. He is a frequent speaker and advisor to funders, institutions, and governments on research management and open science challenges.