Elisabeth Bik, Ph.D., is a scientific integrity consultant and specializes in finding duplicate images in scientific articles. After obtaining her doctorate in microbiology from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, she worked on microbiomes of humans and marine mammals for 15 years in the Department of Medicine at Stanford University. Between 2016-2019, she worked for two startups on the microbiome. In March 2019, she left her job to become a scientific integrity volunteer and occasional consultant. She can often be found discussing scientific articles on @MicrobiomDigest's Twitter, writing for her ScienceIntegrityDigest blog, or searching the biomedical literature for plagiarized or manipulated images and text. She has returned more than 4,000 documents for issues related to image duplication or other concerns. His work has been featured in Nature, Science, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Le Monde, The Times (UK), The Wire (India), and Caixin Global (China).

Dr. Vincent Larivière obtained his ph-D in information science from McGill University. Subsequently. Then he did a postdoctoral in the Information and Library Science Department at Indiana University. As full professor, he currently teaches research methods in information science and bibliometrics at the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Montreal. Since 2015, he has also been scientific director of the Érudit Platform. As a speaker for the symposium, Dr. Larivière will participate in the round table on Zombie Ideas and will be able to share his knowledge on biases and fraud in science.

Dominique Roche is an ecologist and meta-scientist: he studies how scientists do science. His research is funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship from the European Commission to study how open data contribute to improving transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration in science. He is actively engaged in the open science and science policy communities in Canada and internationally. He sits on the Policy Committee for Research Data Canada, the Open Science Working Group for Canadian Science Publishing, the Data Rescue Committee for the NSERC-CREATE Living Data Project, and the Canadian National Committee for CODATA. Recently, he cofounded SORTEE: the Society for Open, Reproducible and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (sortee.org).

Marine Corniou is an agricultural engineer graduated from the National Agronomic School of Montpellier and she has a master's degree in cellular and molecular endocrinology from the University of Montpellier II. For 10 years, she has worked as a science journalist for Quebec Science magazine. Although specialized in health and medicine, she has to deal with other subjects such as particle physics, the environment, new technologies and even evolution. Winner of several awards in journalism, she is the author of the article "Science and fraud: a disturbing phenomenon", published in late 2013 in Quebec Science, which discusses the proliferation of errors and frauds in scientific literature.