Andrew Preston
Founding Investor at Signals
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Preston is a founder and investor who blends a PhD-trained scientist’s rigor with 14 years of product and startup leadership in scholarly infrastructure. He co-founded Publons, taking it from concept to acquisition by Clarivate, then led product and data governance for Web of Science before founding and investing in new ventures like Cassyni and Signals to restore trust in research. Comfortable at the intersection of research, product and business, he has built teams, international offices and partnerships with top publishers while scaling data-driven products. Based in London, he now incubates and backs scholarly startups through Scholarly Angels, applying uncommon domain expertise in peer review, research metrics and academic workflows to early-stage ventures.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Victoria University of WellingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at The MacDiarmid Institute
Github Skills (17)
historical6
crawler5
scrapy5
middleware4
django3
stackoverflow2
journal2
jquery-plugin2
jquery2
creative-commons2
emacs2
css1
responsive1
academia1
markdown1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
arhpreston/preston.co.nz
Oct 2015 - Nov 2022
Contributions:15 pushes in 7 years 2 months
playandbuild/scrapy-history-middleware
Oct 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
scrapyhistoricalweb-resourcescachecrawler
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