Elena Šimukovič graduated from the Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University and the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Currently she is working on her doctoral thesis in the field of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. There she aims at investigating multi-layered transformation processes in the science system along with development and establishment of Open Access publishing models. More information on her work can be found in her ORCID profile.