Anita de Waard

Anita de Waard is VP of Research Collaborations at Elsevier. She has a background in experimental physics and first joined Elsevier as a physics publisher in 1988. She has worked on bridging the gap between science publishing and computational and information technologies, and enabling more seamless and creative modes of research, working with academic and industry partners on projects pertaining to progressing models and frameworks for scholarly communication. Her current work focuses on developing collaborations to improve trust, reproducibility and research integrity in scholarly communications. Her efforts include working on a semantic model for research papers and co-founding the interdisciplinary member organization Force11; since 2024, she is a trustee of the Cambridge Crystallographic Network and as per June 2026 she is the representative for RELX, Elsevier’s parent company, on the Advisory Forum of the EU AI Act.