Alberto Pepe is the co-founder of Authorea. He is also an Associate Research Scientist at HARVARD UNIVERSITY where he recently finished a Postdoctorate in Astrophysics. During his postdoctorate, Alberto was also a fellow of the BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY and the INSTITUTE FOR QUANTITATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE. Alberto is the author of 30 publications in the fields of Information Science, Data Science, Computational Social Science, and Astrophysics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Information Science from the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES with a dissertation on scientific collaboration networks which was awarded with the Best Dissertation Award by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). Prior to starting his Ph.D., Alberto worked in the Information Technology Department of CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, where he worked on data repository software and also promoted Open Access among particle physicists. Alberto holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Astrophysics, both from UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, U.K. Alberto was born and raised in the wine-making town of Manduria, in Puglia, Southern Italy. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @albertopepe