Jan Reichelt is one of the three founders of Mendeley. In his Ph.D. at the University of Cologne he looked at how information management is influenced by interactive value creation activities. Advising Master thesis students in Cologne and doing his research at IIMB in India he noticed that many students and researchers worldwide have the same problems – and he is convinced that Mendeley can shake things up a lot. Jan also shakes himself up a lot by dancing in London’s Salsa clubs.

 

Paul Foeckler is the tech guy of the Mendeley founding team. He is not great in writing about himself – especially not referring to himself in the third person, but he will try. Paul graduated from the Bauhaus-University of Weimar in September 2006 studying Computer Science / Media System Science. The study course gave a lot of possibilities to follow own research interests and work in small teams on new software applications and tools.

 

Paul won the best paper award at the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing with his publication PhoneGuide: Museum Guidance Supported by On-Device Object Recognition on Mobile Phones and attended various international conferences. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and would love to do his Ph.D. thesis once there are tools out there which help him doing so…

 

Victor Henning is the third founder of Mendeley. He’s currently finishing his Ph.D. thesis titled “The Role of Anticipated Emotions in Hedonic Consumption” at the Bauhaus-University of Weimar. His research was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and by the German Research Foundation (DFG), has won two Best Paper Awards at the American Marketing Association Summer Conference, and has been published in journals such as Media, Culture & Society and the Journal of Marketing. It has also been reported on internationally in the Financial Times, Variety, Screen International, The Hollywood Reporter, and other major newspapers.

 

Victor is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Consumer Research, and the American Marketing Association. He also used to be a member of the European Star Wars Fan Club, but that was a long time ago and far, far away.

 

Stefan Glaenzer is the chairman of Mendeley. He previously held the same position at Last.fm, which he helped grow into the world’s largest social music platform. Stefan is a serial entrepreneur whose start-up résumé includes an advertising agency, a book publisher, a TV production company, Germany’s first online-auction company ricardo.de (sold to QXL in 2000), and Germany’s largest blogging community myblog.de.

 

He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg – financed by working as a professional DJ – and is a guest lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

 

Jason Hoyt is the Research Director at Mendeley overseeing R&D and new ventures with academia and industry. He holds a PhD in Genetics from Stanford University where he worked under Michele Calos. There, he researched human gene therapy with site-specific non-viral vectors. Also amongst his direct research advisors at Stanford were Gavin Sherlock, Anne Brunet, and Andrew Fire: 2006 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology.

 

While a graduate student at Stanford, Jason saw the need and opportunity to improve collaborative research through modern Internet concepts and technologies. This resulted in founding Ologeez.org (peer-review literature search, recommendation engine and group collaboration for academics and industry professionals), which has been featured on TechCrunch and recognized world-wide by academics. It goes back even earlier to 1981, when he got his start programming in BASIC on the family’s Atari 800 packing a whopping 8KB of memory.

 

In his free time you’ll probably catch him at a small indie rock venue, daydreaming about a rock-and-roll life.

 

Ben Dowling is a software engineer at Mendeley, working on Mendeley Web. He graduated with an MEng software engineering degree from the University of Southampton in 2006, where he continued to live and work until moving to London to work for Mendeley. He enjoys working on such an innovative project and living in the big city!

 

Andi Rutherford is. And when not playing with words, and editing them on Wikipedia, he is also a programmer for Mendeley Web, and plays a significant role by ensuring that your information is kept secure. He does this by actively trying to hack the site – no joke – this is basically what banks do to ensure your accounts are kept safe. He also has an unhealthy regard for standards, and can be found with the biggest smile when Mendeley pages pass W3C validation.

 

He comes to us by way of the University of Sussex, Imperial College London, King’s College London, and the Open University too! (I think you can guess how he spends his free time – not so much a bookworm as a bookrabbit). He is actively interested in design especially with regards to usability, and when not learning stuff he is aspiring to become a master calligrapher. Please note, he really does have terrible handwriting, so any level will be an easily quantifiable improvement.

 

Steve Ridout is a software engineer at Mendeley. He studied computer science at the University of Cambridge and completed his MSc and Ph.D. on computational modelling at the University of Greenwich. During his Ph.D. and later as a Research Fellow, he wrote software for mechanical stress analysis, optical modelling, and risk analysis. Steve is now helping make Mendeley the research tool he wished he had in academia.

 

When not writing code for Mendeley, Steve occasionally enjoys making games, films, and playing his guitar.

 

Fred Emmott is a software engineer for Mendeley Desktop. Having spent most of his life before university at music school, he changed tracks and graduated from the University of Warwick with a degree in computer science in June 2008.

 

In his spare time, he works on Slamd64 (a 64-bit port of Slackware Linux) and several smaller projects. He also spends way too much time playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band.

 

Robert Knight joins Mendeley as a software engineer working on Mendeley Desktop. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Southampton in June 2008. In his spare time, Robert is a contributor to the KDE project and develops the Konsole terminal. In the past he also wrote the BlueIDE development environment for DarkBASIC and contributed to KSpread.

 

Cindy Rubbens is the business assistant at Mendeley. Wondering what the title stands for? Basically coordinating anything connected to the Mendeley Office. She is the one who welcomes you when you visit the office, who organizes events for the whole team, who assists Jan with various HR tasks and who is responsible for the smooth running of the office. Cindy has a MA Media-Political Communication from Southampton Solent University and a BA Business Management-Commercial Communication from Plantijn Hogeschool, Belgium.

 

In her spare time you can find her visiting the many art galleries London has, taking evening classes in Art History at London University, setting up events for her Xing group ‘Art in London’ and debating with fellow art collectors at IAP Fine Art.

 

Mustaqil Ali joins Mendeley as a QA & support representative. Previously he worked at Last.fm, where he was one of the earlier members of the team and helped to shape their support and QA infrastructure. At Mendeley, his role involves (but is not limited to!) trying to use the software in weird and wonderful ways in an attempt to break it in any way possible.

 

When not looking over the Mendeley software in a pedantic and meticulous manner, he can be found either spending far too much time playing computer games, or by taking an unhealthy interest in music and all that surrounds it. His interest in music reaches far beyond that of just listening to much more than can be considered normal, as he also plays the keyboards and helps contribute towards the open music database Musicbrainz.

 

Anne Oelmann is joining Mendeley as Community Relations Manager, being responsible for putting Mendeley’s combined marketing activities into (a somewhat German) order. Her sense of structure is indeed one of the only German characteristics she has retained; in all other aspects she has completed the transformation into a Londoner, embracing the city’s culture and lifestyle.

 

After having completed a German Diploma (Master’s Degree) in Business Administration at WHU in Germany in 2006, she briefly tested the waters as an investment banker by joining Merrill Lynch in London. This side track, however did only last for a few months before she saw sense and re-orientated towards more creative work; since then she has worked in PR and online marketing within the creative industries.

 

In her free-time you can probably find her in one of London’s clubs – either as a punter or as drummer of her band Rotkäppchen playing live electronic dance music.