Eleonora Presani obtained her PhD in astroparticle physics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, before doing a postdoc at CERN. Since 2011, she works in scientific publishing: first as publisher for a portfolio of 20 high energy physics journals at Elsevier, then as product manager for Scopus, focusing on author disambiguation and author profiles. In March 2020, she became the first Executive Director of arXiv, at Cornell Tech in New York City.
