About the editors
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Editor-in-Chief
Philip Campbell
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: Co-Editor of Editorials, editorial content and management of Nature, long-term quality of all Nature Publications.
Executive Editor
Nick Campbell
Shanghai
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: Nature's external partnerships and supplements program.
Chief Magazine Editor
Rosie Mestel
London
Rosie joined Nature in 2013 after 14 years working as a science and medicine journalist at the Los Angeles Times. Before that, she was a staff reporter at Discover, west coast correspondent for New Scientist, and a freelance writer covering broad topics within the biomedical sciences. She has an undergraduate degree in genetics from Queen Mary, University of London, a PhD in genetics from the University of California, Davis, and is a graduate of the science communications program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Nature Editorial Director
Ritu Dhand
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.
Areas of responsibility include: overseeing editorial content and management of Nature and all Nature journals.
Biological sciences
Francesca Cesari
Chief Biological Sciences Editor, London
Education: BSc, University La Sapienza, Rome; PhD, University of Tübingen; postdoctoral work, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.
Areas of responsibility include: overseeing editorial content and management of biological science.
Contact: f.cesari#nature.com*
Victoria Aranda
Senior Editor, Biology, New York
Education: PhD University of Navarra, Spain; postdoctoral work, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Areas of responsibility include: cancer, gene therapy, genome editing, general translational medicine.
Contact: v.aranda#us.nature.com*
Anna Armstrong
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, University of York; PhD, University of York; postdoctoral work, Australian National University and University of York.
Areas of responsibility include: ecology.
Contact: a.armstrong#nature.com*
Orli Bahcall
Senior Editor, Biology, New York
Education: BSc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; MSc, Oxford University, Oxford UK; PhD, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College, London UK
Areas of responsibility include: genetics, genomics, molecular evolution.
Contact: o.bahcall#us.nature.com*
I-han Chou
Senior Editor, Biology, San Francisco
Education: BA, Harvard University; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; postdoctoral work, University of California, San Francisco.
Areas of responsibility include: neuroscience (including sensory and motor systems, decision making, executive function, psychiatric disease).
Contact: i.chou#us.nature.com*
Tanguy Chouard
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, Ecole Polytechnique, France; PhD, Pasteur Institute; post-doctoral work, Howard Hughes Medical Institute at University of California, Los Angeles.
Areas of responsibility include: systems biology, neurobiology, protein science.
Contact: t.chouard#nature.com*
Alex Eccleston
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, University of Durham; PhD, Imperial Cancer Research Fund; postdoctoral fellowship, Onyx Pharmaceuticals.
Areas of responsibility include: transcription, chromatin, epigenetics, cell cycle, signal transduction and proteomics.
Contact: a.eccleston#nature.com*
Angela K. Eggleston
Senior Editor, Biology, Boston
Education: BSc and MSc, University of Notre Dame; PhD, Northwestern University; post-doctoral fellowships, Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Clare Hall Laboratories) and HHMI-Children's Hospital Boston.
Areas of responsibility include: DNA structure and metabolism, RNA structure and metabolism, biophysics of motor proteins, photosystems.
Contact: a.eggleston#us.nature.com*
Joshua Finkelstein
Senior Editor, Biology and Physical sciences, Boston
(See Physical sciences section)
Contact: j.finkelstein#us.nature.com*
Henry Gee
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, University of Leeds; PhD, University of Cambridge.
Areas of responsibility include: integrative and comparative biology (including palaeontology, evolutionary developmental biology, taxonomy and systematics), archaeology and biomechanics.
Contact: h.gee#nature.com*
Noah Gray
Senior Editor, Biology, New York
Education: BSc, University of Notre Dame; PhD, Mayo Clinic and Graduate School; postdoctoral work, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Janelia Farm Research Campus.
Areas of responsibility include: neurodevelopment, neural circuits and plasticity, learning and memory, language and social neuroscience.
Contact: n.gray#us.nature.com*
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: neurodegeneration, ageing, metabolism, incl. diabetes and obesity, general physiology, incl. bone.
Contact: t.heemels#nature.com*
Christina Tobin Kåhrström
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland; PhD, Uppsala University, Sweden.
Areas of responsibility include: Medical microbiology, Environmental microbiology, Microbial physiology, Microbial oceanography, Microbial genomics, Microbial genetics.
Contact: c.tobinkahrstrom#nature.com*
Nathalie Le Bot
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, Ecole Normale Supérieure d’Ulm, Paris; PhD, EMBL, Heidelberg; postdoctoral work, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.
Areas of responsibility include: stem cells, development and angiogenesis
Contact: n.lebot#nature.com*
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: cancer.
Contact: b.marte#nature.com*
Sadaf Shadan
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, King's College London; PhD, University of Cambridge; postdoctoral work, University College London.
Areas of responsibility include: cell biology and plant biology.
Contact: s.shadan#nature.com*
Clare Thomas
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc, University of Sheffield; PhD, University of Leeds; postdoctoral work, University of Manchester and Stanford.
Areas of responsibility include: virology, cardiovascular biology.
Contact: c.thomas#nature.com*
Ursula Weiss
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: PhD in Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Postdoc with Klaus Rajewsky (immunology), Institute for Genetics, Cologne.
Areas of responsibility include: immunology, vaccine development, immunotherapies.
Contact: u.weiss#nature.com**
Leonie Welberg
Senior Editor, Biology, London
Education: BSc and MSc, Leiden University; PhD, University of Edinburgh; postdoctoral work, University of Edinburgh and Emory University.
Areas of responsibility include: neuroscience (including psychiatric disease, decision making, executive function, and sensory and motor systems).
Contact: l.welberg#nature.com*
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.
Contact: karl.ziemelis#nature.com*
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.
Contact: r.daw#nature.com*
Joshua Finkelstein
Senior Editor, Biological and physical sciences, Boston
Education: BSc, McGill University; MPH, Johns Hopkins University; PhD, Harvard University.
Areas of responsibility include organic, inorganic, and biological chemistry, chemical biology, single-molecule biophysics, protein engineering and design, metabolic engineering, biosynthesis of metabolites, cofactors, and natural products, new methods for structural biology, membrane transport (including ion channels and transporters), and G-protein coupled receptors.
Contact: j.finkelstein#us.nature.com*
Claire Hansell
Associate Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: MA natural sciences & MSci chemistry, University of Cambridge; PhD polymer chemistry, University of Warwick.
Areas of responsibility include: materials and chemistry.
Contact: claire.hansell#nature.com*
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.
Contact: m.helmer#nature.com*
Juliane Mössinger
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: BSc chemistry and environmental chemistry, University of Wales; MPhil and PhD, atmospheric chemistry, University of Cambridge; research fellowship, University of Cambridge.
Areas of responsibility include: biogeochemical cycles, geomorphology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental science.
Contact: j.mossinger#nature.com*
Leonie Mueck
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: Diplom computational chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg; Ph. D. quantum chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz.
Areas of responsibility include: pure and applied physics.
Contact: leonie.mueck#nature.com*
Leslie Sage
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, Washington DC
Education: PhD, astronomy, Stony Brook University; 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.
Contact: l.sage#us.nature.com*
John VanDecar
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: BSc, geophysics, Texas A&M University; PhD, geophysics, University of Washington; postdoctoral fellowships at Utrecht University, and Carnegie Institution of Washington DC.
Areas of responsibility include: geology, geophysics, and geochemistry of the solid Earth and terrestrial planets.
Contact: j.vandecar#nature.com*
Liesbeth Venema
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, London
Education: MS, applied physics, University of Groningen; PhD, applied physics, Delft University of Technology.
Areas of responsibility include: pure and applied physics.
Contact: l.venema#nature.com*
Michael White
Senior Editor, Physical Sciences, San Francisco
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.
Contact: m.white#us.nature.com*
News and Comment
Celeste Biever, Chief News Editor, London
Celeste oversees Nature's online and print news. She joined Nature in 2014 after working at New Scientist for 11 years, where her most recent role was online and deputy news editor. At New Scientist she has at various times been a news editor for physics, biomedical sciences and technology as well as a US correspondent covering technology from the magazine's Boston office. She has master's and undergraduate degrees in chemistry from the University of Oxford and a post-graduate diploma in journalism from City University of London.
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Helen Pearson, Chief Features Editor, London
Helen commissions, edits and oversees Nature's features section. She has been writing for Nature since 2001 and her stories have won accolades including the 2010 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award and the best feature award from the Association of British Science Writers. Helen has a degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge, a PhD in genetics and spent eight of her years with Nature in New York.
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Anna Nagle, Chief Online Editor, London
Anna joined Nature in 2014. She oversees the magazine’s online presence, social media activity, and obsesses over the website’s analytics. Anna has written for New Scientist, Science, and a number of other specialist publications. She was previously News Editor at Chemistry World and Senior Editor at the Centre for Education Research and Practice, and studied Science Communication and Policy at University College London.
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David Adam, Op-Ed Editor
Following a degree in chemical engineering at Leeds University, David joined Nature as a reporter in 2000, and moved to the Guardian newspaper in 2003. He rejoined Nature in August 2010.
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Alison Abbott, Senior European Correspondent, Munich
Alison has been with Nature in Germany since 1992, covering European science policy and a variety of scientific topics, mostly in biology. She also contributes to the Books & Arts section. Alison gained her first degree and PhD, both in pharmacology, at the University of Leeds. After a period of postdoctoral research, she spent seven years as editor of Trends in Pharmacological Sciences.
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Declan Butler, Senior Reporter, Paris
Declan joined Nature in 1993, and writes on everything from global health, information technology, publishing, and science in France, to nuclear power and proliferation. He has a degree in biology from Queen's University, Belfast, and a PhD from the University of Leeds. He was made a Chevalier of France's National Order of Merit in 2003 for service to science and society.
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Ewen Callaway, Senior Reporter, London
Ewen joined Nature in August 2010, after 2 years at New Scientist as Boston-based biomedical reporter. He attended the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz and earned a masters degree in microbiology at the University of Washington. He spends his free time learning to bicycle on the left side of the road.
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Davide Castelvecchi, Senior reporter, physical sciences
Davide covers physics, chemistry, cosmology, energy, mathematics and computer science. He joined Nature in 2012 as assistant online news editor and later deputy news editor, before moving into his current position in 2015. Previously he has been a physical sciences reporter at Science News and a senior editor at Scientific American. He has a PhD in mathematics from Stanford University and a degree in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Erika Check Hayden, Biomedical Correspondent, San Francisco
Before joining Nature's staff in 2001, Erika worked for Newsweek magazine, reporting on science, health and news events, including the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in New York. She now writes on a variety of subjects in biomedical research and related policy, including controversial areas such as bioterrorism, cancer diagnostics and the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs. Erika earned her undergraduate degree in biology from Stanford University in California.
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Daniel Cressey, Reporter, London
Daniel joined Nature in 2007. He reports on chemistry, nanoscience, materials, business and anything else his editors need covering. Before working for Nature he worked for the general practitioners' newspaper Pulse and the UK science policy publication Research Fortnight. He has degrees in chemistry, history of science and journalism.
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David Cyranoski, Asia-Pacific Correspondent, Shanghai
David had worked in Japan for several years before moving into journalism with Nature in 2000. His varied employment history includes translation for a semiconductor-manufacturing equipment company and teaching history to foreign exchange students. As a Nature correspondent, first in Tokyo and then, since December 2013, in Shanghai, he covers a variety of topics with a special interest in stem cells.
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Elizabeth Gibney, Reporter, London
Elizabeth joined Nature as a physical sciences reporter in 2013, after working for Times Higher Education and UK-based science policy publications Research Fortnight and Research Europe. Before that she spent two years as a staff writer at CERN, Europe’s high-energy physics laboratory. Elizabeth has a degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge and a MSc in science communication from Imperial College London.
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Heidi Ledford, Reporter, Boston
Heidi writes about biology and medicine, and has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Heidi has written for The Oregonian, edited for the Berkeley Science Review, and freelanced for a few other publications.
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Corie Lok, Research Highlights Editor, Boston
Corie has been with Nature since 2005. She first joined as an assistant editor with Naturejobs. She was the senior editor of Nature Network before becoming the editor of Nature's Research Highlights section. She's also worked for MIT's Technology Review and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (radio) and has a master's degree in science journalism from Boston University.
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Brendan Maher, News Features Editor, Philadelphia and New York
Brendan officially joined Nature in April 2009 after freelancing for the magazine for two years editing features and commentaries. Before that, he was a senior editor for The Scientist. He has been writing and editing life science news for more than eight years.
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Richard Monastersky, News Features Editor, Washington DC
Richard joined Nature in 2008, writing and editing features on geosciences, climate, environment and other gloomy topics. Before that, he was a reporter and editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education and he covered earth sciences at Science News magazine. In more than two decades as a journalist, he has reported science stories from every continent and won several awards.
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Lauren Morello, US Chief of Correspondents, Washington DC
Lauren is Nature's US news editor. She studied chemistry at Drew University and earned a master's degree in science journalism at Boston University. Lauren was previously a reporter covering climate change science and policy at ClimateWire. She has also written extensively about oceanography, ecology, nanotechnology, and biotechnology, and she spent several years as a beat reporter covering the US Congress. [email protected]
Sara Reardon, Reporter, Washington DC
Sara joined Nature in 2013 and writes about biomedical research and policy. She has previously written for New Scientist and Science, and has a master's degree in molecular biology from the University of Washington. [email protected]
Quirin Schiermeier, German Correspondent, Munich
Since 1999, Quirin has written for Nature about science and related policy in Germany, the European Union, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He is particularly interested in climate, oceanography, fisheries and the Earth sciences. Before joining Nature, Quirin worked as a cartographer. He graduated in geography, statistics and economics from the University of Munich.
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Jeff Tollefson, Reporter, Washington DC
Jeff came to Nature from Congressional Quarterly, where he covered energy, climate and the environment for two years. Before that he was a Knight fellow in science journalism at MIT; a science reporter at the Santa Fe New Mexican, where he covered Los Alamos and the national labs among other topics; and a general assignment reporter at the Billings Gazette for which he covered Yellowstone National Park. Jeff has won a number of accolades, including New Mexico press awards for pieces on pollution and nuclear-weapons work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is originally from Wyoming and has studied French, Russian and Portuguese.
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Richard Van Noorden, Deputy News Editor, London
Richard joined Nature in January 2009 as a reporter and subsequently a senior reporter covering chemistry, materials, energy and science publishing, and moved into his current position in 2015. Previously, he was a reporter and editor at Chemistry World. He has a master's degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge. [email protected]
Mitch Waldrop, News Features Editor, Washington DC
Mitch joined Nature in February 2008. Before that, he earned a PhD in elementary particle physics; worked as a staff reporter for Chemical & Engineering News and Science; wrote several books; and worked as a media officer for the National Science Foundation.
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Alexandra Witze, Retained Correspondent, Boulder, Colorado
Alex covers the Earth and planetary sciences, with a little dabbling in astronomy. She studied geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among other places she has worked as a journalist for Science News and the Dallas Morning News; she also ran Nature's US news operations from Washington DC between 2005 and 2010. Alex rejoined the journal in 2013.
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Comment, Books & Arts, Correspondence, Obituaries
Sara Abdulla
Chief Commissioning Editor, London
Education: BSc, mathematics, Imperial College; MSc, crystallography, Birkbeck College (University of London).
Areas of responsibility include: overseeing editorial content and management of Comment sections, including: Comment, Books & Arts, Correspondence and Obituaries.
Joanne Baker
Comment Editor
Education: MA, natural sciences, University of Cambridge, UK; PhD Astrophysics, University of Sydney; postdoc positions at University of Cambridge; University of California, Berkeley; University of Oxford
Areas of responsibility include: physical and earth sciences
Rosalind Cotter
Correspondence editor, London
Education: BSc, chemistry, Westfield College London; PhD, biophysics, Kings College London
Areas of responsibility include: Correspondence, Communications Arising
Barbara Kiser, Books and Arts editor
Barbara handles arts and book reviews for Nature, and runs the blog A View from the Bridge. A 25-year veteran of science journalism (New Scientist and Nature), she has also worked as an editor and writer — focusing on environment, development and policy — at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, International Maritime Organization, SciDev.Net and the International Institute for Environment and Development. She has a degree in English literature from Vassar College in New York.
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Lucy Odling-Smee
Comment Editor, Obituaries Editor, San Francisco
Education: MA, natural sciences, University of Cambridge, UK; PhD, evolutionary ecology, University of Edinburgh.
Areas of responsibility include: biological sciences.
News & Views
Andrew Mitchinson
Chief Editor, News & Views, London
Education: BSc Hons, chemistry, University of Durham; PhD, chemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Areas of responsibility include: chemistry, materials science, geochemistry, climate science and biochemistry.
Jennifer Gardiner
Associate News & Views editor, biological sciences, London
Education: BSc Hons, genetics, University of Nottingham; PhD, developmental genetics, King’s College London; postdoctoral fellowship, Institute of Cancer Research, London.
Areas of responsibility include: molecular and cell biology, neuroscience, developmental biology, metabolism, stem cells, systems biology and plant biology.
Marian Turner
Senior News & Views editor, biological sciences, London
Education: BBiotech Hons, Flinders University; PhD, immunology, University of Melbourne and Walter and Eliza Hall Institute; postdoctoral fellowship, LMU Munich.
Areas of responsibility include: genetics, genomics, cancer, translational medicine, immunology, microbiology, ecology, evolutionary biology, palaeontology and social sciences.
Careers
Karen Kaplan, Editor, Careers, Washington DC
Karen came to Nature's careers section in December 2008 after stints at Physics Today; a handful of business publishers in Washington DC and Charleston, South Carolina; and The Day, an independent daily newspaper in New London, Connecticut. Karen, who has degrees in English and mass communications, cut her teeth in the journalism business at The Day, where she was a business reporter and editor covering big pharma.
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Outlook
Herb Brody, Boston
Herb joined Nature in 2010 as Supplements Editor. He has a BSc in physics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Previously, he was an editor at MIT's Technology Review magazine, which covers the societal, business, and policy impacts of scientific research and emerging technology.
Michelle Grayson, London
Michelle joined Nature in 2009 as launch editor of Outlooks supplements. She has an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and embarked upon a brief career as an accountant. From there, Michelle very quickly moved into publishing/journalism, starting with a stint on BioVenture View biotechnology newsletter.
Multimedia
Charlotte Stoddart, Head of Multimedia, London
Charlotte joined Nature in 2007 after a brief stint with BBC Radio and after completing an MSc in science communication at Imperial College London. Before that, she studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge, taking courses in everything from physiology and ecology to the history and philosophy of science. She also squeezed in two years teaching English and learning Japanese in Japan. At Nature, Charlotte spends most of her time directing and editing short films as well as occasionally contributing to the weekly Nature Podcast.
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Noah Baker, Video and Podcast Editor, London
Noah produces short films for Nature Video and also presents and creates audio content for the Nature Podcast. He joined Nature in 2013 after working on several independent documentary projects, for cinema and the web. Noah has a BSc in Zoology and an MSc In Science Media Production both from Imperial College London.
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Kerri Smith, Podcast Editor, London
Kerri presents and produces Nature's podcasts and the award-winning NeuroPod, and occasionally reports for the News section. She joined Nature as an intern in 2006 after completing an MSc in science communication at Imperial College London. In the past she has contributed to New Scientist and the Times. Kerri has a degree in human sciences and another MSc, in neuroscience, both from the University of Oxford.
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Adam Levy, Multimedia Producer, London
Adam produces audio and video content with the Nature Multimedia team, which he joined in 2015. Previously, he studied at the University of Oxford for both his undergraduate degree in physics, and his doctorate degree in atmospheric physics. He has also worked as a photographer and software developer, and recently created a climate change YouTube series, titled ClimateAdam.
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