Marie Soulière
Marie Soulière
Head of Auditing & Editorial Compliance
Dr Marie F Soulière is the Head of Auditing & Editorial Compliance at the open-access publisher Frontiers, based in Switzerland. She leads the team performing research and editorial integrity audits across journals. Her expertise focuses on balancing rigorous quality assurance and ethical standards with operational efficiency, enhanced by the strategic use of technology.
With a PhD in biochemistry and postdoctoral experience in chemical and computational biology she transitioned her scientific expertise into scholarly publishing in 2010. Marie led the Research Integrity and Peer Review teams at Frontiers for several years, and played a pivotal role in developing the industry’s first Research Integrity AI assistant (AIRA) released in 2018.
An elected COPE council member since 2020, she is now a COPE Trustee and chairs the COPE Papermill working group. She was a key contributor to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)’s 2021 guidelines on AI for decision-making in publishing, and led the development of the 2025 COPE and STM guides on guest-edited collections. She also serves on the CrossRef Membership and Fees committee, and the STM Research Integrity Committee.
