Cameron Neylon
Australian biophysicist & activist
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David Cameron Neylon is an advocate for open access and Professor of Research Communications at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University.[3][4] From 2012 to 2015 they were the Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science.[1][5][6][7][8]
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- Panton Principles
- Beautiful Data[1]
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| Born | David Cameron Neylon |
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| Awards | Blue Obelisk award (2010) |
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| Thesis | Towards the directed molecular evolution of DNA-binding specificity (1999) |
| Website | cameronneylon |
Education
Neylon was educated at the University of Western Australia[citation needed] and the Australian National University where they were awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biophysics in 1999 for work on directed molecular evolution and DNA-binding specificity.[9][10]
Career
In 2009 Neylon was a senior scientist at the ISIS neutron source of the Science and Technology Facilities Council.[11] From 2012 to 2015 they served as director of advocacy at the Public Library of Science.[12] They joined The Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University in 2015 as Professor of Research Communications.[3][4]
Neylon is an original drafter of the Panton Principles and opposed the Research Works Act[13] and advocates for governmental encouragement for researchers to use open access licensing.[14][15]
Neylon advocates for the use of altmetrics in determining the impact of scholarly publications.[16][17]
Awards and honours
In 2010 they accepted a Blue Obelisk award.[18]