William Gunn has been engaged in creating the future of science from the very beginning. As a young child he was fascinated by futuristic stories of science in Omni Magazine and Wired, leading him to get his PhD in the cutting edge field of stem cell biology. His first-hand experience with the inefficiencies and antiquities of "modern" academic research led him to join the team at Mendeley where he works on bringing modern network efficiencies to academic research.