Victor Henning, Mendeley

Victor Henning is the co-founder and director of Mendeley, a desktop- and web-application for managing and sharing research papers as well as discovering research trends. In February 2009, Mendeley closed a US$ 2m funding round led by co-founders and executives behind Skype, Last.fm and Warner Music Group.

Henning is also a lecturer at the Bauhaus-University of Weimar, where he is writing his Ph.D. thesis on the role of emotions in decision-making. His research has been published in journals such as Media, Culture & Society and the Journal of Marketing, and has been covered by the Financial Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and others. He has also co-edited a book titled Guru Talk on the future of the German film industry.

He writes on Mendeley's blog and can be found on Twitter at mendeley_com.