Martin Fenner

Martin Fenner graduated from the Medical School of the Free University Berlin, and is a board-certified oncologist who has worked many years treating cancer patients and doing cancer research. In 2008 he started the blog Gobbledygook (http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/) to write about scholarly communication from a researcher perspective. He is involved in the Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID, http://about.orcid.org<http://about.orcid.org/>) initiative, and is currently chair of their Outreach Working Group. In May 2012 he joined the Open Access Publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) in May 2012 to become the technical lead of their Article-Level Metrics project (http://article-level-metrics.plos.org<http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/>).