Alexander Grossmann has held positions at several prestigious research institutions and publishing companies. He is currently a Professor of Publishing Management and co-founded ScienceOpen, an open access publishing platform. The document then lists his contact information and outlines two challenges of open peer review: how to increase openness and transparency without compromising quality, and whether an editor's role in reviewer assignment is needed to maintain quality.

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Alexander Grossmann
Physics at RWTH Aachen
PhD at Research Center Julich 1996
Max Planck Institute for Quantenoptics
Associate Professor at U Tuebingen 1999
Publishing Director at Wiley-Blackwell 2001-8
Managing Director Springer Wien 2008-9
Vice President Publishing De Gruyter Berlin 2009-13
Professor of Publishing Management
at HTWK Leipzig University of Applied Sciences since 2013
Co-Founder of ScienceOpen
@SciPubLab
Alexander.Grossmann@scienceopen.com
ORCID.org/0000-0001-9169-5685

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Challenges on Open Peer Review
 How to establish more openness and transparency in
peer review without affecting the quality of scholarly
communication?
 Question whether an editorial-moderated
assignment of reviewers is needed for OPR, or not
to assess a maximum level of quality maintenance?