Stephan Kuster
Stephan Kuster is the Head of Public Affairs at Frontiers. His role involves working with funders, universities, libraries and policy makers around the world to jointly develop conditions to make Open Access the default way of disseminating peer-reviewed research results.
Before joining Frontiers in 2019, Stephan was the Secretary General of Science Europe, where he worked with European Research Funders and Research Performing Organizations to develop policies, practices and joint initiatives to support European science. As European representative in the steering group of the Global Research Council he helped foster collaboration among research organizations in areas such as Research Integrity, Open Science, researchers careers and curiosity driven research funding. He was part of the group that developed Plan S to accelerate the transition to Open Access. He has also advised the European Commission as part of the Executive Board the European Open Science Cloud and was a member of the Open Science Policy Platform. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland, is married and has two sons.
Stephan Kuster is the Head of Public Affairs at Frontiers. His role involves working with funders, universities, libraries and policy makers around the world to jointly develop conditions to make Open Access the default way of disseminating peer-reviewed research results.
Before joining Frontiers in 2019, Stephan was the Secretary General of Science Europe, where he worked with European Research Funders and Research Performing Organizations to develop policies, practices and joint initiatives to support European science. As European representative in the steering group of the Global Research Council he helped foster collaboration among research organizations in areas such as Research Integrity, Open Science, researchers careers and curiosity driven research funding. He was part of the group that developed Plan S to accelerate the transition to Open Access. He has also advised the European Commission as part of the Executive Board the European Open Science Cloud and was a member of the Open Science Policy Platform. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland, is married and has two sons.
