EU Prize for Women Innovators 2017 finalists: Frontiers

Kamila Markram

Dr Kamila Markram is a neuroscientist at the EPFL and the co-founder and CEO of Frontiers, one of the largest and most impactful Open Access publishers in the world. Frontiers is a digital-age scholarly publishing company with a mission to bring Open Access publishing and Open Science IT solutions to academics and the general public. In 2014, Frontiers received the ALPSP Gold Award for Innovation in Publishing. In 2016, Kamila was named a L’Hebdo Forum 100 personality, a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and recipient of the Gold Stevie Award for Women in Business. Frontiers has taken part in one project funded by the 7th Framework Programme for Research, and is currently participating in two projects funded by Horizon 2020.