About Cassyni
Our vision
Our vision is to create a vibrant and connected ecosystem that enables millions of online and hybrid research seminars; helping academics, institutions and journals grow their reach and maximise their impact in an engaging and convenient way.
To achieve this we have developed a next-generation workflow platform for seminar organisers, and are building the world's largest freely accessible and fully searchable research seminar library.
The Founding Team
Dr. Andrew Preston
Andrew has worked as an active researcher in physics, first as a PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, then as postdoctoral fellow at Boston University.Andrew went on to found Publons with a mission to improve the peer review system, which was acquired by Clarivate in 2017 and now serves more than 2 million researchers. His latest endeavor is Cassyni.com, a platform that simplifies the process of scheduling and running academic seminars and then publishes the talks with a DOI.
Dr. Ben Kaube
Ben co-founded Cassyni to help academics discover and disseminate scholarly research through seminars and video. Prior to Cassyni he founded research tools Kopernio (for improving access to research papers) and Newsflo (for helping academics evidence the societal impact of their research) which are now relied on by millions of researchers.Ben holds a PhD in physics from Imperial College London and was named a Forbes “30 Under 30” for Science and Healthcare in 2020.
Prof. Freddie Witherden
Freddie is an academic whose primary focus is on the development of next generation methods for solving flow-physics problems. He has also pioneered on methods for the identification of “deep fake” images.Outside of academia, Freddie has a keen interest in the advancement of science, having previously co-founded academic media monitoring platform Newsflo which was acquired by Elsevier in 2015, and the scholarly access solution Kopernio, which was acquired by Clarivate Analytics in 2018.
Prof. Peter Vincent
Peter is an academic and entrepreneur with a track record of delivering innovation across various areas of science, engineering, medicine, data visualisation and edtech.He is a Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, a co-lead of the open source PyFR project, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a founding partner of the digital consultancy Quadrature Solutions. He previously co-founded Kopernio (now part of Clarivate Analytics), which has over 1 million users worldwide.
Cassyni in the news
Cassyni was named a finalists in the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2023 which recognises new products which
are both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication.
Cassyni was included in the Outsell 2023 Emerging 50 list featuring the
best-of-the-best emerging companies in the data, information, and analytics economy for growth and disruption.
Cassyni was listed as a winner in the Future Learning category of the Falling Walls Foundation's 2022 annual Breakthrough of the Year prize.
