Véronique Kiermer is the Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS, the Public Library of Science, where she oversees the editorial department and the development of solutions to promote open science. Véronique has a PhD in molecular biology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She was a postdoc in the laboratory of Dr Eric Verdin at the Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, after which she worked in R&D for gene therapy projects in the biotechnology industry in the Bay Area. She moved into publishing in 2004, first as the founding chief editor of Nature Methods, then as the Executive Editor for the Nature portfolio before joining PLOS in 2015. She’s a proud alumnus of the ORCID Board and she currently serves on the Board of Directors of Keystone Symposia, the Scientific Advisory Board of the EMBL-EBI Literature Services & Biostudies, the Steering Committee of PREreview and the NISO CRediT Standing Committee. Since 2021, she is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust.