Michael Seadle is a professor at Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, and is the chair of the Commission on Research Malpractice. His experience with research integrity issues builds in part on over 20 years of experience as a journal editor, where he confronted plagiarism and other research integrity issues. As dean he also dealt with such issues at the bachelors and masters level. When Elsevier approached him to fund a research project, he suggested research integrity. This led to the establishment of the HEADT Centre (Humboldt-Elsevier Advanced Data and Text Centre), whose mission is in part to investigate research integrity issues.