Cameron Neylon

Cameron Neylon is an independent researcher and consultant specializing in open research, research evaluation and reform, research policy, and institutional design. From 2015 to 2025, they were Professor of Research Communication at Curtin University’s Centre for Culture and Technology and co-lead of the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative. Previously, Neylon served as Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science and as a senior scientist at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council.

Neylon is a co-author of Open Knowledge Institutions and Reading Peer Review, and contributed to the Altmetrics Manifesto and the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. Their earlier research career included work in biophysics and molecular biology.