Alex Mendonça has a major in Digital Media with an emphasis in Interface Design by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. He has been working at SciELO Brazil since 2006 and is part of its Coordination Board since 2014. He is currently co-leading the transition of SciELO Brazil journals towards Open Science for an even more democratic access to knowledge, which include overseeing the development of the SciELO Preprints server, promoting the adoption of open data and making the peer review process more transparent and open.