NATASCHA CHTENA, PHD

I am a researcher, editor, and former journalist working on open science governance, with a particular interest in how commitments to openness are negotiated in practice. My current research focuses on preprint moderation and open peer review, examining how judgments about scientific legitimacy and quality are made as research circulates beyond traditional journal publishing. More broadly, I am interested in the relationship between openness and epistemic equality, including how open science policies and practices enable or limit participation in the production and evaluation of knowledge.

I am a Research Associate at the ScholCommLab at Simon Fraser University, a Research Affiliate with the Public Knowledge Project, and a Publishing Project Manager at mediastudies.press. From 2020 to 2022, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the HKS Misinformation Review, a diamond open-access journal that publishes interdisciplinary research on misinformation and on measures aimed at combating it.

In 2019, I received my PhD from the Department of Information Studies at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Previously, I studied Media Anthropology, Education/Cultural Studies, and Optometry at the School of Oriental and African Studies in England, the UCLA Department of Education, and the Athens University of Applied Sciences in Greece, respectively. My outlook is highly interdisciplinary and informed, in addition to my academic training, by my background in journalism, publishing, and art management.