The monthly IP4OS webinar series continues with a fourth webinar on the topic of Exploitation of intellectual property systems for the manipulation of academic reputations. 

The webinar will focus on how the team led by Richardson discovered the sale of thousands of design registrations under the guise of “patents” as an explicit ploy for academics to pad their CVs and improve their standing in institutional rankings.

Date: 16 October
Time: 1 PM (CET)
Location: Online

About the speaker
Reese Richardson is a metascientist studying reproducibility, bias and fraud. His primary research involves characterizing networks and systems enabling industrialized scientific fraud and developing approaches for detecting markers of irreproducibility in the published scientific literature at scale. He is also a member of the growing community of post-publication peer reviewers and has authored more than 1000 posts on post-publication peer review site PubPeer. He earned his PhD in Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences from Northwestern University in 2024, where he studied under Luís A Nunes Amaral. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Center for Science of Science and Innovation at Northwestern University.

Please note that prior registration is necessary for admission to the webinar.