Director, Research Policy and Scholarship
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Marcel LaFlamme leads the Association’s Scholars and Scholarship portfolio, which includes activities in data-intensive and technologically enabled scholarship, such as AI; new modes of publishing; open science; and community-engaged scholarship. He also liaises with the higher education, research, and policymaking communities on these issues.
Marcel is a scholarly communication professional committed to building evidence, capacity, and consensus around an equitable transition to open scholarship. His past experience in libraries, publishing, and scholarly societies, along with his focus on understanding the distinctive needs of research communities, help advance the Association’s priority to bridge policy and practice. An attentive collaborator, Marcel advocates for research library and archives leaders and equips them to serve as partners in moving research and scholarship forward.
Prior to joining ARL in November 2024, Marcel was an open research manager at the Public Library of Science (PLOS). Before working at PLOS, Marcel was a postdoctoral researcher at the LBG Open Innovation in Science Center, in Vienna, Austria. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Rice University, an MS in library and information science from Simmons College, and a BA in folklore and mythology from Harvard University.
