Jennifer Mayfield

Jennifer Mayfield is the Deputy Senior Director of Electronic Publishing at Optica, where she leads the development and management of the society’s digital library platform. She oversees publishing workflows, platform technologies, content dissemination, metadata governance, and semantic enrichment across journals, conference proceedings, and co-published titles. She received her BA in english from West Virginia University and MA in linguistics from George Mason University.

Throughout her career, Mayfield has advanced digital scholarly publishing, including supporting the growth of Optics Express, the first all-electronic journal in the physical sciences. She has served on Crossref and National Information Standards Organization working groups and is a Past Chair of the Stephen D. Fantone Distinguished Service Award Selection Committee. In 2026, she received the Optica Treasurer’s Award.