Robert Hilliker is a Director, Library Relations (North America) at Springer Nature. He possess expertise in metadata, library, research, cataloging, higher education and 28 more skills. He is proficient in Russian and French. Colleagues describe him as "I frequently collaborated with Rob during my tenure as Communications Coordinator at CDRS. We worked on many projects together, including a focus group, and he was consistently open to my ideas. Rob has an ingenious way of encapsulating high-level concepts into comprehensible phrases in an organized fashion. I greatly admire the work he has done with Academic Commons and have had a tremendous experience working with him." and "Robert was the best writer in my Digital Curation class in both style and thought. He went deeply into each question and produced thoughtful and appropriate analysis of the problems. As part of both that class and the Digital Library Technology class, he was involved in the design of two different digital library plans, both well done."