The document contains profiles of several employees at AJE, describing their roles, experiences working at AJE, and hopes for how their work impacts the world. Key details include: - Employees appreciate working with talented, dedicated colleagues and serving global researchers. - Their work aims to accelerate research by helping more authors publish and share their findings internationally. - They hope to lower barriers and support the global research community through their efforts.

1. A B O U T M E
What are your favorite aspects of working at AJE
that you’d like our customers to know about?
AFTON T.
PhD, Pathology
Duke University
7 Years at AJE
Everyone that works at AJE brings a great deal of talent and
expertise to the work that we do, and it's a joy to work with so
many people who are motivated to learn and get better every
day, all in the pursuit of supporting the publication of new and
interesting research from around the globe.
How has working at AJE impacted you?
Working at AJE broadened my horizons considerably. I went
from a small lab and a very focused research project to
learning about the challenges faced by researchers all over
the world. Each country, institution, and field has its own
challenges that would have been difficult to consider
otherwise. It's given me the opportunity to grow personally,
helping to shape my view of the global research community,
and has also allowed me to find new ways to grow and
contribute to the publication and communication of science.
VP, Operations

2. ALEXIS R.
BS, Marketing
BS, Communications
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
4 Years at AJE
A B O U T M E
Please describe how you hope that the work you’ve
done at AJE has impacted the world.
I hope that the work I've done has allowed more researchers to
learn about AJE and therefore given more people the chance to
succeed in publishing their research.
How has working at AJE impacted you?
I've learned so much about the challenges others face in what
ideally should be a level playing field. Seeing how hard people
all over the globe work to make their communities and the
world a better place through their research has truly moved
me in ways I didn't expect when I started this job. It has been
one of the great honors of my life to work for AJE.
I love Portugal, especially the Algarve. It is my favorite place on
earth, so even though it would be a repeat trip, it's the "next"
place I want to go.
What is the next country you’d like to visit and why?
Team Manager, Global Marketing

3. A B O U T M E
What are your favorite aspects of working at AJE
that you’d like our customers to know about?
ALLISON M.
PhD, Pharmacology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
7.5 Years at AJE
What I love most about working at AJE is the people. I've never
met a more intelligent, committed, customer-centric group of
individuals. The majority of our workforce consists of PhD and
advanced degree holders, which means that we have been at the
bench, we have been rejected from journals, and we deeply
understand the challenges researchers face.
Please describe how you hope that the work you’ve
done at AJE has impacted the world.
I hope that the work we do helps to accelerate research by
ensuring that research being conducted across the globe is
able to receive the recognition and readership it deserves by
helping break down language barriers.
Is there anything else you’d like our customers to
know about you?
As project manager for AJE, I've managed dozens of projects
and participated in many more. We're constantly making data-
driven decisions to improve our customers' experience with
our website and services. I look forward to seeing what the
future brings for AJE!
Project Manager

4. APRIL T.
PhD, Biochemistry
Duke University
7.5 Years at AJE
A B O U T M E
How has working at AJE impacted you?
Working at AJE has allowed me to develop new expertise in
Customer Service. When I started at AJE, I was an editor and liked
to talk to customers and resolve their complaints, so I was able to
develop my communication, operations and service knowledge
and skills to lead our Customer Service function.
Please describe how you hope that the work you’ve
done at AJE has impacted the world.
I hope that my work at AJE has advanced the research
community by helping more international researchers to publish
their work, giving more people access to that information so that
it can be used for the benefit of society.
Spain; I can speak some Spanish, but I would love to be
immersed in the language to really push myself to learn more
and practice.
What is the next country you’d like to visit and why?
VP, Customer Service

5. A B O U T M E
How has working at AJE impacted you?
ARIANA B.
MS, Biochemistry
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
4.5 Years at AJE
I've always loved learning and being involved in research, but
doing my own individual research often made me feel isolated
from the larger research community. Working at AJE has, despite
me no longer doing research myself, allows me to feel like I'm
more connected to the research community and like my impact
working with this entire team is greater than any impact I could
have had on my own.
What are your favorite aspects of working at AJE
that you’d like our customers to know about?
I get to work with a stellar team of brilliant people who
constantly aim to improve our own systems and processes, all
while doing work that inspires me and that I know helps
researchers around the globe do their work better, too.
Please describe how you hope that the work you’ve
done at AJE has impacted the world.
I hope we've helped researchers around the globe feel like
they are supported in their work. I hope we've lowered or
removed some of the barriers that exist in the current system
of publishing, meaning less challenges faced and struggles felt
by the researchers themselves and more research available to
the scientific community.
Director, Operations

6. BRETT N.
Master of Business Administration
University of Virginia
4 Years at AJE
A B O U T M E
What are your favorite aspects of working at AJE
that you’d like our customers to know about?
AJE's commitment to our customers is unparalleled. We take a
customer-centric point of view in every decision we make. We
back these decisions with data and a clearly defined set of
company values. This wonderful cocktail of customer-focus, data-
driven and values-driven makes AJE an incredible place to work.
How has working at AJE impacted you?
We serve a global community of researchers across 186
countries. To reach these customers, provide exceptional
service to them, and exceed their expectations time and time
again requires us to be global citizens. We must possess a
genuine commitment to the global research community, an
intellectual curiosity to learn about their needs, and a willingness
to adapt quickly.
Norway or Denmark. Despite having traveled to over 40
countries, I've never explored where my ancestors come from.
What is the next country you’d like to visit and why?
VP, Marketing

7. A B O U T M E
Please describe how you hope that the work you’ve
done at AJE has impacted the world.
DAN B.
MS, Physics
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
7 Years at AJE
I hope the papers I've edited have been read and cited many
times by now, and I hope the operational processes I work on
multiply that impact for hundreds of authors.
What is the next country you’d like to visit and why?
I'd like to go back to Colombia in the near future. I recently
visited some universities and AJE customers there and found
the people kind, the food delicious, and the natural beauty
truly impressive.
Is there anything else you’d like our customers to
know about you?
It means a lot to me to be able to serve researchers and help
their hard-won results make the greatest possible impact.
Director, Operations

8. DOUG S.
BS, Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University
5.5 Years at AJE
A B O U T M E
How has working at AJE impacted you?
Every day brings fun and exciting challenges. I've learned what it
takes to deliver web content around the globe. I've learned about
interesting and unique areas of study. I've learned about the
different ways that people use our website. Every day is a
learning opportunity, and there is still so much more to learn.
Please describe how you hope that the work you’ve
done at AJE has impacted the world.
Our mission is to improve the way new research and
discoveries are shared. Although I don't have a background in
research, my work at AJE lets me contribute to this process. I
hope that my work has enabled researchers to make
important discoveries and share them with the world.
I want our customers to know that we put a lot of
consideration into the design of our website. Our customers
trust us to provide high-quality services, and we take this
responsibility very seriously. We strive to provide an interface
that is secure, easy to use, and free of defects. We are always
looking for new ways to improve this process.
Is there anything else you’d like our customers to
know about you?
Team Manager, Engineering

9. A B O U T M E
Please describe how you hope that the work you’ve
done at AJE has impacted the world.
JEFF G.
PhD, Pharmacology
Master of Business Administration
Duke University
11 Years at AJE
A key thing for me about working at AJE is the mission. Our
focus is all about partnering with researchers to help them
communicate their findings, so my main hope is that we are
truly succeeding at that with each customer we work with.
What are your favorite aspects of working at AJE
that you’d like our customers to know about?
I think my favorite aspect of working at AJE is the people I get
to work with. The whole team is talented, dependable, and
dedicated, and I can always trust that they will do excellent
work and challenge me to do the same.
Principal Data Scientist
What is the next country you’d like to visit and why?
Costa Rica because they always seem to be at the top of any
list of happiest places in the world.

10. LAURA S.
PhD, Biochemistry
Duke University
11 Years at AJE
A B O U T M E
What are your favorite aspects of working at AJE
that you’d like our customers to know about?
The employees are AJE are wonderful. I am so lucky to work with
a group of such brilliant, humble, creative, and hard-working
colleagues. They go the extra mile for our customers and for
each other.
Please describe how you hope that the work you’ve
done at AJE has impacted the world.
In my role, I help develop services that address some of the
challenges faced by researchers during the publication
process. My hope is that our services save time for our
customers so that they can focus on their areas of expertise.
I would like to visit China. We have so many customers in
China, and I would love to meet some of them. Plus, I hear it
has incredible food!
What is the next country you’d like to visit and why?
Product Manager

11. A B O U T M E
How has working at AJE impacted you?
SARAH T.
PhD, Biology
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
9 Years at AJE
When I was in my PhD program, I published four papers over the
course of six years. Since working for AJE over the past nine
years, I personally provided language editing services for over
3,000 papers, and I've helped hire new talent and build new
systems that have enabled editing, translation, formatting, and
journal recommendation services for nearly 700,000 papers. I
may not be an author on all of those papers, but I feel I've
multiplied my impact on the scientific community as a whole
thousands of times over.
What are your favorite aspects of working at AJE
that you’d like our customers to know about?
I hope our genuine care for our customers and their success
comes through in our personalized service and industry-leading
quality. I often wish our customers could see our internal
communications. Every day, we celebrate our customers'
publications. We celebrate positive customer feedback and
improve based on negative feedback. We poll our employees
on what makes them happy just as we poll our customers. The
resounding response is "our purpose, our mission." Our
employees work here because they genuinely want to spend
their time helping fellow researchers publish their work.
General Manager