More to science: working in science publishing outreach

What is your scientific background? I studied Immunology and Microbiology at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. I also did my PhD there, at the Cell Biology department of the University Medical Center. This lab specialized in Immuno Electron Microscopy and live cell imaging techniques which helped me get a Post Doc position at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. How did you transition from the lab to your current job? I first got a job as Developmental editor for a brand-new journal called F1000Research. I learned lots about editing and science publishing and about the new developments in journals to improve the publishing process. It was very different from working in the lab, but I very much enjoyed working on many interesting papers and trying to help authors improve their publications. As the journal grew, we visited more conferences and talked to more scientists face-to-face about the rather unusual publication process, collecting useful feedback along the way. When F1000 launched a new product that I had helped to test during its development a new job was created and I shifted from editorial to outreach. The key part of the job is to connect with scientists to explain what the F1000 products can do and how they can help in the process of writing and publishing their research. The hard part was that the job did not really exist before and a lot of things just had to be tried out. It was very fun trying to find the best way to communicate novel produc...
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