Team
Reinbert van der Fluit
Co-Founder & Sales
Fluent in Dutch, English and German, Reinbert is a skilled networker, business development expert and publishing innovator. Having worked for nearly 18 years in global academic publishing roles for Elsevier and Peervoice, he is now the primary contact for all societies, universities and research groups looking to extend the reach of their scholarly research by using Aldus Press’s unique publishing system.
Daniel Loebl
Marketing
Daniel Loebl has worked in digital marketing for companies large and small. He has created and implemented integrated digital marketing strategies for over 15 years. He specializes in finding ways to make a company’s vision come alive in the minds of its customers.
Bas Straub
Co-Founder & Publishing
Bas has 25 years of experience working across multiple publishing sectors. After many years leading Elsevier’s regional office for Germany, Austria and Switzerland he founded several companies including Magknowlia, Konvertus and now Aldus Press. He has always strived to ensure publishing provides the best possible service to scholars everywhere and has always publicly championed the open access model from its first theoretical inception.
Gertruda Gilyte
Admin Assistant
Gertrūda Gilytė has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the Vilnius University as well as Fine Arts degree from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her academic interests include soft power, cultural politics, and new media studies.
Gertrūda is working as a freelance translator and researcher since 2016. Currently, she is finishing her Master’s degree at the Berlin University of Arts.
Acquisition Editors
Dr. Alissa Jones Nelson
Acquisitions Editor, Humanities & Religious Studies
Alissa completed her PhD at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics at the University of St. Andrews in 2009. She worked as the Acquisitions Editor in Religious Studies for De Gruyter and then as the Senior Editor and Head of the Publishing Department for the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute in Berlin. Since 2016, she has worked as a freelance editor and publishing consultant. She is a native English speaker, fluent in German, with more than 8 years of experience in the publishing industry. Alissa has acted as midwife to more than 300 publications, from monographs and edited volumes to white papers and special reports. She believes strongly in the importance of Open Science and democratizing the global research landscape.
Keywords: religious studies; theology; political science; humanities; social sciences
Marion Hoffmann
Acquisition Publishing Editor Humanities
Marion has been working as a freelance acquisition editor for several years with a.o. Elsevier. She has a lot of experience in editorial and marketing work, journal publishing and content development.
Keywords: Social Sciences; Humanities; DACH
Wayne Yuhasz
Executive Acquisitions Editor,
Biomedical Sciences and Technologies
Wayne Yuhasz’s (Ph.D Cambridge University) focus is upon addressing innovative diagnostics, therapeutic and related technology approaches for advances in basic and translational medical research.
Wayne has extensive global STM publishing experience with CRC Press and Springer. His unique and innovative interdisciplinary publishing knowledge and skills was recognized with three PSP awards in three different disciplines.
Since 2009 he has been a publishing consultant, strategic planning and high-impact title development, for major publishers, John Wiley, Elsevier, Morgan & Claypool, and the Institute of Physics.
Keywords: Biomedical Sciences; Diagnostic & Therapeutic Technologies; Precision Medicine; Nanomedicine; Systems Medicine; Molecular Medicine; Regenerative Medicine; Machine Learning, AI & Data Analytics in Medicine; Image-Guided Diagnostics & Therapeutics ; Targeted Drug & Gene Delivery Methods & Technologies; Theranostics
Gijs van Koningsveld
Acquisitions Editor,
Humanities
Gijs received an MA in English literature from the University of Amsterdam, and has worked in publishing for over 15 years. For the past 5 years, he has been a freelance publishing consultant, copywriter and editor. Gijs has extensive experience in bringing writing projects – in both English and Dutch – to successful publication, ranging from academic papers, journals and monographs to literary fiction and various forms of non-fiction. Gijs is also the founder of November Editions, an independent imprint devoted to publishing German Expressionist literature in English translation.
Keywords: Art; Architecture; Linguistics; Literature; History; Art History; Philosophy; Sociology
Advisory Board
Michel Tibayrenc
IRD Centre de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Anthony Watkinson
CIBER Research, London, UK
Floris J. Pos
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Søren Nors Nielsen
Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg, Denmark
Jens Peter Nørgaard
University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
M.B.A. van Doorn
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Neil Ferguson
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Jan Veltrop
Open Access Publishing Expert, The Hague, The Netherlands
