Our Team

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll is an expert-ranked academic editor in economics and finance with more than a decade of editorial experience in research publishing.

Samantha graduated with an MSc in Comparative Politics (Latin America) from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2009 and began her career in the press and publications team the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London the following year, working on production of the Discussion Paper series and the content pipeline for the policy portal VoxEU.org. In 2012, Samantha moved to Colombia to serve as senior production editor in the Bogota office of the startup publishing house Freestone Publishing, producing country investment reports on the mining industry.

Samantha continued to work as a freelance academic editor with researchers around the world for the next half-decade in Colombia before accepting a position in 2017 as managing editor of ProMarket.org and senior editor at the Stigler Center for the Study of the State and the Economy at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. In 2019, Samantha joined American Journal Experts, now a wholly owned subsidiary of SpringerNature, as an academic editor in economics and finance and was promoted to expert rank the following year.

In 2023, Samantha founded Standard Error Research Editors to focus on providing editorial support to her own clients in top departments around the Americas and Europe.

Amrit K. (Amy) Daniel received her JD from St. John's University School of Law, her MA from the New School of Social Research, and her BA from Columbia University. Amy's academic and professional experience spans health services, the social and biological sciences, as well as the law. She has been working as a freelance academic editor since 2016. Papers that she has edited have appeared in journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and American Economics Journal: Macroeconomics. Prior to becoming an editor, she served as a healthcare liaison between medical contractors and the state of Washington, and she also practiced law at a top-twenty law firm in New York City. Amy is a registered attorney in the states of New York and Illinois.

Anne Rebull is an academic editor and cultural historian who has been editing for over a decade. Her editing experience began while attaining a doctorate from the University of Chicago (2017), continued through a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan (2020), and has led to her current status as a professional copyeditor, trained by the University of California, San Diego (2024). She spent the past two years with Research Square Company, which recently rebranded under its older name, American Journal Experts. As an editor, Anne works across most fields in the humanities and social sciences, and she also edits for the professions, including business, education, law, and nursing.

Anne has seen multiple texts through to publication as copyeditor, including articles, book chapters, and full-length books. Her own publications span political history, theatrical literature, cinema and the arts in China, seen most recently in Rethinking Chinese Socialist Theaters of Reform, and she specializes in editing texts that need to speak to broad audiences with mixed expertise. Aside from professional experience in the humanities, she has worked extensively with researchers engaged in statistical research with complex data across the social sciences. She has linguistic competency in Mandarin (advanced/fluent) and Spanish (intermediate).

Celia Pastoriza has over 10 years of experience as an academic editor in a range of areas including economics, finance, public policy, entrepreneurship, and marketing. She has edited the works of over 2500 authors, including books, journal articles, grant proposals, press releases, and business plans.

Celia holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management with concentrations in Information Technology and Accounting. Following Sloan, she spent several years in management consulting and research, which gave her experience in business areas ranging from manufacturing to insurance. As a consultant, she initially focused on information technology before finding a niche in consumer products, forecasting, and entrepreneurship. She subsequently worked in real estate for 15 years, where she exercised her skills in both accounting and financial analysis, before joining AJE as a contract and then a full-time editor.

Charles Joseph Del Dotto is an academic editor with over ten years of experience working with researchers around the world in policy analysis, economics, management, and the social sciences and humanities. With American Journal Experts, he edited over 5,300 manuscripts and was promoted to Academic Editor, Expert.

Charles received his undergraduate education at Princeton University, majoring in English and graduating cum laude in 1999. He then earned master’s and doctoral degrees in English at Duke University in 2002 and 2010, respectively. His teachers at Princeton and Duke included Daniel Kahneman (co-recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics), Deborah Prentice, Robert P. George, Maurizio Viroli, Fredric Jameson, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Toril Moi, and Thomas Pfau. Charles has presented work at venues such as the Modern Language Association of America, Shakespeare Association of America, and International Shaw Society, and he has published articles and reviews in four peer-reviewed academic journals. His long-term scholarly project is a monograph titled Shaw’s Late Style: Adorno, Aesthetics, and the Shavian Canon between the World Wars.

Kaitlyn (Kait) Sims is an applied microeconomist, writer, and editor who finished her PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics at UW–Madison in 2022. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Microeconomics for Public Policy at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Her research is at the intersection of public health, the economics of violence, and environmental health hazards. Broadly, she is interested in the ways that individuals cope with uncertainty and social turbulence, including housing insecurity, domestic violence, and poverty. Kait has experience using data in all scales, including original data collection, "big" data and spatial analysis, program evaluation, and qualitative interviews. Her work has been published in such venues as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Public Health, Punishment & Society, and Critical Social Policy.

Olivier Simard-Casanova is a French economist with a long experience with academia, science communication, and R.

After receiving a License in Economics and Sociology from the University of Toulouse 1 – Capitole, he received a Master’s in Macroeconomics and European Policies from the University of Strasbourg in 2012.

In 2015, while doing research in organizational economics at the University of Strasbourg and at the University of Lorraine, Olivier created his first French-speaking economics popularization blog. Since then, Olivier has written hundreds of articles and thousands of social media posts, hosted podcasts, published YouTube videos, and hosted online and in-person events to communicate economics to the general public. Olivier currently runs the largest French economics popularization newsletter, and he does science communication consulting.

In 2012, Olivier began teaching economics, statistics, and mathematics at various French higher education institutions and, to his surprise, continues to do so to this day.

Since writing his first line of R code in 2014, Olivier has also become a proficient R user, with a strong interest in data visualization. He does statistics consulting for clients (including academics) and teaches R online and in person.

Regal Johnson has been an academic editor for 15 years, specializing in macro and microeconomics, public policy, finance, public health, and history. His editing experience ranges from short articles to longer contributions, theses, book chapters and monographs.

He holds a master's in public policy from the University of Chicago (MPP, 2012), where his work focused on income inequality and children's human capital and development. Regal earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in 2002, with a double major in history and political science. During his undergraduate studies, he also worked in organizing, training the next generation of students to become engaged citizens, communicate new knowledge and apply it to influence public policy in action.

Soumyajit (Shom) Mazumder is a political economist, writer, and academic editor who received his PhD in government from Harvard University in 2020. He is currently working on a book-length project on the promise of deepening democracy in the workplace.

Shom's research spans several areas including corporate governance, racial capitalism, mass incarceration, and state-building and has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Review of Economic Studies, Science Advances, and the Journal of Historical Political Economy.

His writing has also appeared in The Washington Post, The New Republic, Jacobin, and FiveThirtyEight, where he is a contributor. Shom joined Standard Error as an academic editor in 2023.