About Academia.edu

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. 5,786,699 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 1,621,476 papers and 924,289 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 5 million unique visitors a month.

The Team

Richard Price CEO

Richard did a Ph.D at Oxford in philosophy, where he was a Fellow of All Souls College. His thesis was in the philosophy of perception. Prior to that, he did a BA at Oxford in philosophy, politics, and economics.

Ben Lund CTO

Ben studied Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Before joining Academia.edu, Ben worked for Nature and as a freelance web developer building web applications for researchers and medics.

Jarques Pretorius Designer

Jarques graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Web Design and Interactive Media from the Art Institute of California - San Francisco.

David Judd Engineer

David majored in Computer Science at Columbia and then worked for Yodle in New York before joining Academia.edu in October 2012.

Courtney Quirin Science Writer

After wrapping up a MSc in Wildlife Management at the University of Otago, NZ, where she studied farmer-primate conflict in the Ethiopian highlands, Courtney pursued a PhD in wildlife sciences studying urban coyotes. However, it didn't take long for Courtney to realize her true passions lie in science communications (as well as running and biking in gorgeous landscapes), which landed her in San Francisco as a science and environmental writer.

Russell Harmon Engineer

Russell is currently finishing is MS in Computer Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In addition to his graduate studies and work at Academia, he also has a passion in networking, kernel hacking and programming languages.

Stacey Touset Engineer

Stacey recently finished a MS in mathematics at Georgia Tech and attended New College of Florida for undergrad. In addition to technological things, she's obsessed with botany and Russian lit.

Charlie Swanson Engineering Intern

Finishing his undergraduate Computer Science degree at Carnegie Mellon University

Lindsay Cade Engineering Intern

Before her current software developer incarnation, she was a traveler, a research biologist, and an illustrator. She is still all of those things to varying degrees, but mostly she writes code now.

Nate Sullivan Engineer

Nate studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before joining Academia.edu in July 2013.

Mandy Chan User Operations

Mandy graduated from UCSD with a Biochemistry and Cell Biology major. Aside from her love for the sciences, she also has an interest in design, writing, and ice cream.