About the editors
Table of contents
- Editor-in-Chief
- Managing Editor
- US Executive Editor
- Publishing Executive Editor
- Editorials
- Biological sciences
- Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
- News and Views
- Books & Arts/ Correspondence & Essays/Commentaries
- News and features
Editor-in-Chief
Philip Campbell
Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Nature Publications, London
Education: BSc, aeronautical engineering, University of Bristol; MSc, astrophysics, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; PhD and postdoctoral fellowship, upper atmospheric physics, University of Leicester.
Areas of responsibility include: editorial content and management of Nature, long-term quality of all Nature Publications.
Managing Editor
Nick Campbell
Managing Editor, London
Education: BSc (Hons.), genetics and zoology, University of Adelaide; PhD, evolutionary and population genetics, Southern Cross University; postdoctoral research and Grad. Cert Journalism, University of Queensland.
Areas of responsibility include: publishing management and development of Nature.
US Executive Editor
Linda Miller
US Executive Editor, New York
Education: BA, biochemistry, The Johns Hopkins University; PhD, immunology, Harvard University; postdoctoral research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland.
Areas of responsibility include: editorial policy, content quality and community liaison for Nature and the Nature research journals.
Publishing Executive Editor
Maxine Clarke
Publishing Executive Editor, London
Education: BA and MA, physiology and psychology, University of Oxford; DPhil biophysics, University of Oxford; postdoctoral fellowship, biophysics of muscle crossbridges, King's College, London.
Areas of responsibility include: author and referee services, editorial project management, editing various sections of the journal and subediting (copy editing) management.
Editorials
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Co-Editor of Editorials, Nature and Senior Editor, News and Features, Washington DC
Education: BSc, mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; PhD, physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison; MA, journalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Areas of responsibility include: Nature editorials, news features and special reports.
Biological sciences
Ritu Dhand
Chief Biological Sciences Editor, London
Education: BSc, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London; MSc. University College, London; PhD, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and University College London; postdoctoral fellowship, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Areas of responsibility include: overseeing biological sciences editorial content and management.
Lesley Anson
Senior Editor, Biology, and Insight Programme Editor, London
Education: BSc, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne; PhD, University of Bristol; postdoctoral work, University College London.
Areas of responsibility include: ion channels, transporters, Ca2+ signalling, sensory transduction, pain and physiology.
I-han Chou
Senior Editor, Biology, New York
Education: AB, Harvard University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; postdoctoral work, University of California San Francisco.
Area of responsibility: Neuroscience.
Tanguy Chouard
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, Ecole Polytechnique, France; PhD, Pasteur Institute, France; post-doctoral work, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at University of California, Los Angeles.
Areas of responsibility include: Systems Biology, Neurobiology, Protein Science.
Natalie DeWitt
Senior Editor, Biology, San Francisco
Education: BS, biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park; PhD, cell and molecular biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison; postdoctoral work, Yale University Department of Genetics.
Areas of responsibility include: developmental biology, including invertebrate and vertebrate development, neurodevelopment and plant development.
Alex Eccleston
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, molecular biology and biochemistry, University of Durham, PhD, Imperial Cancer Research Fund; postdoctoral fellowship, Onyx Pharmaceuticals.
Areas of responsibility include: transcription, chromatin, epigenetics, signal transduction and proteomics.
Angela K. Eggleston
Senior Editor, Biology, Boston
Education: BS (microbiology) and MS (molecular genetics), University of Notre Dame; PhD (biochemistry and molecular biology), Northwestern University; post-doctoral fellowships, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Clare Hall Laboratories) and Children's Hospital, Boston.
Areas of responsibility include: DNA structure and metabolism (replication, repair, recombination and transposition), RNA structure and metabolism (translation, processing, splicing, transport, degradation and RNAi).
Henry Gee
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, University of Leeds; PhD, University of Cambridge.
Areas of responsibility include: aspects of integrative and comparative biology (including palaeontology, evolutionary developmental biology, taxonomy and systematics), archaeology and biomechanics.
Patrick Goymer
Associate Editor, Biology, London
Education: BA, genetics, University of Cambridge; DPhil, experimental evolution, University of Oxford; postdoctoral fellowship, evolutionary and molecular genetics, University College London.
Areas of responsibility include: evolutionary biology, ecology.
Noah Gray
Associate Editor, Biology, New York
Education: BS, University of Notre Dame; PhD, Mayo Clinic and Graduate School; postdoctoral work, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Janelia Farm Research Center.
Area of responsibility: Neurodevelopment, Neural circuits and plasticity, Learning and memory, Language and Social neuroscience.
Marie-Thèrése Heemels
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc and MSc, Free University Amsterdam; PhD, Netherlands Cancer Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Areas of responsibility include: cell death, neurodegeneration, ageing, diabetes and obesity, physiology.
Claudia Lupp
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: Dipl. Ing. biotechnology, Germany; PhD, cell and molecular biology, University of Hawaii, USA; post-doctoral work, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Areas of responsibility include: microbiology, parasitology, mycology and biological oceanography.
Barbara Marte
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: Diploma in Human Biology,University Marburg; PhD, University Basel; postdoctoral fellowship, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London.
Areas of responsibility include: cell cycle, cancer, angiogenesis.
Deepa Nath
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, University of Delhi; DPhil, University of Oxford. Post doctral work: University of Oxford.
Areas of responsibility include: cell biology and plant sciences.
Magdalena Skipper
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc Hons Genetics, University of Nottingham, UK; PhD, MRC LMB, University of Cambridge, UK; postdoctoral fellowship, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London.
Areas of responsibility include: genetics, genomics, gene therapy, biotechnology, molecular evolution.
Ursula Weiss
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: PhD: Baylor College of Medicine, postdoctoral work: Institute for genetics, Cologne university.
Areas of responsibility: Immunology, virology.
Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
Karl Ziemelis
Chief Physical Sciences Editor, London
Education: BA, natural sciences, University of Cambridge.
Areas of responsibility: overseeing physical sciences editorial content and management.
Rosamund Daw
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: BEng, materials science and engineering, University of Sheffield; PhD, materials science, University of Sheffield; postdoctoral fellowship, bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle.
Areas of responsibility include: materials science.
Joshua Finkelstein
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, Boston
Education: BSc, McGill University, Quebec, Canada; PhD, Harvard University.
Areas of responsibility include: organic, inorganic and biological chemistry, chemical biology, molecular and physical biochemistry, enzymology, protein engineering and design.
Magdalena Helmer
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: Vordiplom, chemistry, University of Tübingen; MS, marine and atmospheric chemistry, University of Florida; PhD, environmental sciences, University of East Anglia.
Areas of responsibility include: chemistry.
Juliane Mössinger
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: BSc chemistry and environmental chemistry, University of Wales, Swansea; MPhil and PhD, atmospheric chemistry, University of Cambridge; research fellowship in chemistry, University of Cambridge.
Areas of responsibility include: biogeochemical cycles, geomorphology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental science.
Leslie Sage
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, Washington DC
Education: PhD, astronomy, Stony Brook University, New York; postdoctoral fellowships at New Mexico Tech and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy; assistant professorship University of Nevada at Las Vegas; research associate position, University of Maryland.
Areas of responsibility include: astronomy, planetary science and physics.
Karen Southwell
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: BA, physics, University of Oxford; MSc, astronomy, University of Sussex; DPhil astrophysics, University of Oxford
Areas of responsibility include: pure and applied physics.
John VanDecar
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: BSc, geophysics, Texas A&M University; PhD, geophysics, University of Washington, Seattle; postdoctoral fellowships at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and Carnegie Institution, Washington DC.
Areas of responsibility include: geology, geophysics, and geochemistry of the solid Earth and terrestrial planets.
Liesbeth Venema
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: MS, applied physics, University of Groningen; PhD, applied physics, Delft Unversity of Technology.
Areas of responsibility include: pure and applied physics.
Michael White
Associate Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: BA, environmental science, University of Virginia; MS, forestry, University of Montana; PhD, remote sensing and ecological modeling; postdoctoral fellowship, University of Montana.
Areas of responsibility include: climate sciences.
News and Views
Tim Lincoln
Editor, News and Views
Education: BSc biology, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London; MSc oceanography, University of Southampton.
Areas of responsibility include: palaeontology, evolutionary biology, ecology, microbiology and Earth science.
Ana Lopes
Education: Licenciatura, physics, Technical University of Lisbon; PhD, astrophysics, University of Oxford; postdoctoral studies, University of Heidelberg.
Areas of responsibility include: physics, astronomy, mathematics.
Andrew Mitchinson
Senior Editor
Education: BSc, chemistry, University of Durham; PhD, chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Areas of responsibility include: chemistry.
Sadaf Shadan
Education: BSc, medical biochemistry, King's College London; PhD, cell biology, University of Cambridge; postdoctoral studies, University College London.
Areas of responsibility include: molecular and cell biology, genetics, immunology, neurobiology and developmental biology.
Books & Arts/ Correspondence & Essays/Commentaries
Sara Abdulla
Chief Commissioning Editor, London
Education: BSc Mathematics, Imperial College; MSc Crystallography Birkbeck College (University of London)
Areas of responsibility include: overseeing opinions sections editorial content and management — books & arts, commentary, essays, correspondence, podcasts
Joanne Baker
Books and Arts Editor, London
Education: MA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK; PhD Astrophysics, University of Sydney, Australia; MA Landscape Architecture, University of Greenwich, UK;
postdoctoral research associate at University of Cambridge, UK; Hubble Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, USA; Royal Society University Research Fellow, University
of Oxford, UK
Areas of responsibility include: books and arts
Lucy Odling-Smee
Associate Editor, Essays & Correspondence, London.
Education: MA in natural sciences, University of Cambridge, UK; PhD, evolutionary ecology, University of Edinburgh.
Sarah Tomlin
Commentary and Senior News Features Editor, London
Education: BSc, physics, Imperial College London; PhD, biophysics, Imperial College London.
Areas of responsibility include: Commentary section, and News Features in the physical sciences.
News and features
See NatureNews.
