We’re thrilled to welcome four new members to the Dryad Board of Directors: Wind Cowles, Shivali Fulchand, Gareth Jenkins, and Nicholas Wolf.

Dryad board members work closely with our leadership to help to guide the organization and shape the future of research data publishing. Board members are responsible for strategic oversight, governance and accountability, informing our services, fiduciary duty, and participation in committees.

This year, we were particularly eager to add board members with expertise in data publishing or research integrity, research data management, and health and biomedical sciences research. Our new board members bring that experience, and so much more. Their backgrounds span data librarianship, book and journal editorial, hands-on scholarly research, and more.

At the same time, we confirmed extensions for current board members Jake Carlson and Mona Ramonetti. We are so grateful for their continued service!

Finally, we wish to express our appreciation to departing board members Scott Edmunds and Brooks Hanson, who both served two consecutive three-year terms, as well as Jenny Muilenburg and Daniel Potter. Our deep thanks go to Jason Williams, who served Dryad for seven years as a Director, Secretary and Chair of the Board and whose leadership guided Dryad through an important stage of growth.

Meet our new board members

Wind Cowles

Wind is the Associate Dean for Data, Research, and Teaching at Princeton University Library, where she leads the strategic development and implementation of services, training, and technological infrastructure to advance research and scholarship in the sciences, social sciences, engineering, digital scholarship, open scholarship, and research data. As the founding director of the Princeton Research Data Service, she led the development of user-driven data services and infrastructure to advance data and code sharing, and continues to collaboratively lead the development of TigerData, a campus-wide, large-scale data management and storage service. A strong advocate for the democratization of access to information, she has contributed to national and international initiatives through her work with ARL, MakeDataCount, and HELIOS, and has served on the executive committee and advisory board for the Data Curation Network.

Before joining Princeton University in 2019, Wind was a Scientific Review Officer at the National Institutes of Health and an Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Florida, where she was an award-winning teacher and the director of the Language and Cognition Lab. She received her PhD in Cognitive Science and Linguistics from UC San Diego.

Shivali Fulchand

Shivali was appointed Editorials Editor at The BMJ in February 2025, following her tenure as Editorial Registrar from 2019 to 2020. Between 2020 and 2025, she freelanced for BMJ Open. Her professional background includes working as a life sciences consultant and as a medical doctor in the Academic Foundation Programme in Leicestershire. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, where she contributed to clinical trials on Epidermolysis Bullosa. Shivali earned her medical degree and a degree in medical genetics from Cardiff University School of Medicine (UK).

As a student, she co-founded The British Student Doctor Journal and The Foundation for Medical Publishing. Her interests focus on improving healthcare systems, advancing health equity, and integrating policy, research, and economics to enhance global health outcomes.

Gareth Jenkins

Gareth is a Director in the Life & Health Sciences team at Wiley, where he has worked since 2017. He leads a team that focuses on strategic development of the company’s ecology & evolutionary biology journal portfolio, working with both academic society and proprietary titles. He is additionally responsible for building and delivering an expanded suite of journals across several subject areas that are led/staffed by professional editors, to adapt to the multiple challenges of modern publishing. Previously, he served as Editor-in-Chief of several ecological journals, including Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Biogeography, and Environmental Microbiology, where a particular interest was expanding open data/code policies and pressing for standards in data archiving. Prior to joining Wiley, Gareth was an academic researcher. His work focussed on trophic networks, particularly in freshwater ecosystems, and their response to multiple stressors, such as acidification and temperature.

Nicholas Wolf

Nicholas is Co-Head of Data Services and Research Data Management Librarian, New York University Division of Libraries. As a researcher and member of the NYU faculty he is a historian specializing in digital humanities and quantitative methods of historical inquiry. As a member of the NYU Data Services team, he coordinates the department’s collaborations in running the university’s research repository (UltraViolet), contributes to its data curation workflows, and leads many of its microservices around persistent identifiers. He has previously served on member-driven governance committees for HathiTrust and DataCite, and is a curator for the Data Curation Network. He is the author or coeditor on more than 20 books and articles focused on his research specialty, the history of Ireland.