Holly Falk-Krzesinski
Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD, is the Vice President for Global Academic & Research Relations for Elsevier. Falk-Krzesinski is focused on strategic initiatives, partnerships, and stakeholder needs at research institutions and federal funding agencies. Her engagement activities emphasize collaboration opportunities related to scholarly and research communication, research development, research information management, and strategic planning for the research enterprise. Prior to joining Elsevier, Falk-Krzesinski had been a faculty member in the college of arts & sciences and school of medicine at Northwestern University where she led initiatives related to research development, grantsmanship, and team science. She facilitated a multitude of trans-institutional collaborative grant programs spanning art history to bioenergy to translational medicine, with a special interest on approaches to evaluating collaboration and interdisciplinary research effectiveness and policies that support researchers engaged in these activities. Through her leadership with the Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference, Falk-Krzesinski has been instrumental in developing a strong, interdisciplinary community of practice for team science and interdisciplinary research training. In 2008, Falk-Krzesinski launched the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP), first serving as the organization’s founding president and then chair of membership until 2012. Falk-Krzesinski has her B.S. in biological sciences, with honors, and a chemistry minor from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and received her PhD in microbiology and immunology from Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. She returned to UIC at the medical school for her postdoctoral fellowship in host-microbial pathogen interactions and conducted research at Abbott Laboratories in the pharmaceutical products group developing the first HIV protease inhibitor. Falk-Krzesinski also earned a Certificate of Professional Development in Nonprofit Management from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.