Amy Brand was born on October 20,1962 and is an American academic.
17 Facts About Amy Brand
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Previously, Amy Brand was the assistant provost of faculty appointments and information at Harvard University and vice president of Digital Science.
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Amy Brand grew up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where she attended Barnard College.
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Amy Brand moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1985 for graduate school and has lived mainly in the Boston area since.
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Amy Brand received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in linguistics from Barnard College in 1985 and a Doctor of Philosophy in cognitive science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989.
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Amy Brand was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1989 until 1992, conducting research in child language development, but ultimately decided to switch careers and move into academic publishing.
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In 1994, Amy Brand joined the MIT Press as a cognitive science editor for Bradford Books, MIT Press' cognitive science imprint.
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From 2000 to 2008, Amy Brand served as CrossRef's director of business and product development.
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Amy Brand was later promoted to university-wide Assistant Provost for Faculty Appointments and Information.
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Amy Brand currently serves on the boards of several information and media organizations, including the International Science Council, Creative Commons, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Coolidge Corner Theater Foundation.
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Amy Brand is on the Research Data and Information Committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Amy Brand previously served on the Board of International Scientific Organizations of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,[8] the DuraSpace board of directors, and she chaired the academic advisory board of Altmetric, a commercial service that tracks how works of scholarship are discussed online.
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Amy Brand was executive producer of the documentary Picture a Scientist, a 2020 selection of the Tribeca Film Festival that highlights gender inequality in science.
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Amy Brand co-created the CRediT taxonomy to track contributions to team-based research outputs reliably.
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Amy Brand was a founding member of the ORCID Board and advised on several community initiatives in digital scholarship.
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Amy Brand was awarded the Laya Wiesner Community Award and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award.
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In 2015, Amy Brand was awarded the Award for Meritorious Achievement by the Council of Science Editors.