CSS - Life as a Professional Editor

Datum: 26.03.2026
Uhrzeit: 14:30 - 15:30
Vortragender: Johannes Stortz, PhD
Senior Editor - Communications Biology, Springer Nature Group
Ort: MPI for Biology, Max-Planck-Ring 5
Raum: 0A01

Johannes is a Senior Editor at Communications Biology (Springer Nature) and will talk about the journey of becoming a professional editor at scientific journals. His talk will provide information about the necessary skill set required to succeed in this role, the editorial day-to-day and the application process for editorial positions.

About the speaker:

Johannes received his PhD from the University of Glasgow (UK) establishing a CRISPR/Cas9-based molecular tool to investigate actin biology in the human parasite Toxoplasma at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology. For his postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing (Cologne, Germany), he focused his research on host-pathogen interactions by studying membrane contact sites between intracellular pathogens and host organelles. In April 2022, he became an Associate Editor with the Public Health and Medicine team at PLOS ONE. Johannes joined the editorial team of Communications Biology as Associate Editor in July 2023. He is based in the Heidelberg Office.

For registration, please write an e-mail to rst@tuebingen.mpg.de.