Meet Nature’s new editor: a geneticist who reads scientific papers like ‘page turners’
After 149 years, Nature, one of the top scientific journals in the world, is getting its first editor-in-chief who’s a life scientist. And its first editor-in-chief who’s on Twitter.
Magdalena Skipper also happens to be the first editor-in-chief who is a woman.
A geneticist by training and a longtime editor at other Nature publications, Skipper will take the helm as the eighth editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal in July. She will replace Philip Campbell, who is moving to a new role as the editor-in-chief at Nature’s publisher, Springer Nature.
The scientific community cheered the news of, noting that she brings a laundry list of talents to the job.
