I am an assistant professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa. My research focuses on social media in scholarly communication, bibliometrics, altmetrics and open science.

I am also co-directing the #scholcommlab and am an associate member of the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) and an affiliated researcher with the Canada Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication, Université de Montréal and the Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (OST), Université de Québec à Montréal.

I have a Master’s degree in history, American linguistics and literature and information science, and a PhD in information science from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany and have previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Montréal and as a bibliometric analyst at Science-Metrix, Canada as well as Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.