[CANCELLED] Why Nature – the what, why and how of a journal with a 150 year history

Speakers

Magdalena Skipper, Editor in Chief, London

Magdalena is a geneticist by training and has considerable editorial and publishing experience: having started in Nature Publishing Group in 2001, she was Chief Editor of Nature Reviews Genetics, Senior Editor for genetics and genomics at Nature, and more recently Executive Editor for the Nature Partner Journals. Before joining Nature as Editor in Chief she was Editor in Chief of Nature Communications. She studied sex determination at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, and Notch signalling in the vertebrate gut epithelium at the ICRF Laboratories (CRUK today), London. She is passionate about mentorship, transparent science and clarity in science communication. She has a keen interest in innovation in science publishing. Magdalena is based in the London office.

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Federico Levi, Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London

Education: MA physics, Università degli Studi di Milano; PhD theoretical quantum physics, University of Freiburg.
Areas of responsibility include: pure and applied physics.