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. 13,139,128 academics have signed up to Academia.edu, adding 3,272,354 papers and 1,233,902 research interests. Academia.edu attracts over 15.7 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.

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.

Nate Sullivan
Engineer

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

Kevin Wu
Engineer

Kevin received his BS and MS from UCSD, where he studied Computational Biology. He enjoys long walks on the beach and piña coladas.

Adnan Akil
Product Director

Adnan received his BS and MS in Bioengineering from UCSD and UCI. He enjoys getting caught in the rain.

George Bashi
Engineer

George graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in music informatics and received a Masters in Creative Software Systems. He enjoys programming and learning Americanisms.

Michael Phillips
Engineer

Mike studied CS and Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. He enjoys rock climbing, road trips, and camping in the woods.

Ashley John
People Operations

Ashley studied history at UC Berkeley and enjoys working out early in the morning.

Kate Miltenberger
User Operations

Kate graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in English Writing and French. She likes rock climbing, speaking French, and the orchid on her desk.