Cameron Neylon

Education Neylon was educated at the University of Western Australia and the Australian National University where they were awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biophysics in 1999 for work on directed molecular evolution and DNA-binding specificity.

Career In 2009 Neylon was a senior scientist at the ISIS neutron source of the Science and Technology Facilities Council. From 2012 to 2015 they served as director of advocacy at the Public Library of Science. They joined The Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University in 2015 as Professor of Research Communications. and advocates for governmental encouragement for researchers to use open access licensing.

Neylon advocates for the use of altmetrics in determining the impact of scholarly publications.

Awards and honours In 2010 they accepted a Blue Obelisk award.