Staff Editors
Emily Chenette
Editor-in-Chief
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Emily studied biochemistry at Columbia University as an undergraduate, and went on to earn her PhD in genetics and molecular biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She then completed postdoctoral research at Duke University, where she analysed gene expression signatures in lung cancer. Emily has always loved scientific writing and policy and left the bench to pursue an editorial career in 2007. Before joining PLOS ONE in 2018, she held editorial positions at Nature Cell Biology and The FEBS Journal. She is excited to support PLOS ONE’s commitment to community and open science.
George VousdenDeputy Editor-in-Chief |
George joined PLOS ONE in 2017 following his PhD and subsequent post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge. He has a background in psychology and neuroscience, specialising in the use of rodents to better understand human disease. He is passionate about open science, reproducibility and preventing publication bias.
Behavioral and Social Sciences, Neuroscience, Mental Health
Vanessa CarelsSenior Editor |
Vanessa earned an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota. They spent some time studying what happens in bird brains when they learn to sing, then left the Midwest to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of California, Berkeley. Their research focused on the encoding of complex sounds in auditory cortex and the ways that modulating attention can change the sensory code. They worked as a freelance science writer and editor as a graduate student, and came to PLOS in 2017 excited to contribute to open scientific communication.
Avanti DeySenior Editor
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Avanti received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Queen’s University in Canada before heading to the U.S. to obtain a PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences in 2016 from Washington University in St Louis. Her graduate research examined the interaction between cognitive abilities during speech perception in aging, with a focus on executive function and language. She went on to complete a year of postdoctoral training in behavioural economics and decision-making at Columbia University, before returning to the field of cognitive aging to examine issues of age-related neural compensation at the Center for Vital Longevity at University of Texas at Dallas as a postdoctoral research scientist. Avanti has also worked as an Associate Editor with The POSTDOCket, the official newsletter of the National Postdoctoral Association, and joined PLOS ONE in 2020.
Public Health and Medicine
James Mockridge
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James studied Biology as an undergraduate at the University of Bath and received his PhD from the University of Cambridge for a project investigating the signaling mechanisms of growth hormone. After completing postdoctoral research in the Department of Cardiology at King’s College London, he moved from the bench into scientific publishing and worked at Portland Press and then at Springer Nature as an Editor in the BMC Series handling a portfolio of medical journals. Before joining PLOS ONE in July 2021, James was the Managing Editor of the British Journal of Cancer.
Marianne ClemenceSenior Editor
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Marianne studied Biological Sciences at the university of Oxford and subsequently completed a Wellcome Trust-funded doctoral training programme in Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine. Her research focused on characterisation of the polysaccharide capsule in Neisseria meningitidis, a leading cause of bacterial meningitis. After her PhD, Marianne spent some time working as a medical writer, supporting the development of publications in rare genetic disorders. She developed a particular interest in Open Access in the publication of clinical research, which led her to join PLOS ONE in August 2020.
Steve ZimmermanSenior Editor
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Steve received an undergraduate degree in Communication Studies from Nottingham Trent University and a master’s degree in Intelligent Systems from the University of Nottingham. He stayed at Nottingham to pursue a PhD in Psychology, using cognitive modelling to examine language development. After graduating, Steve took a lecturing position at the University of Derby and then moved to the US to become an Assistant Professor at Illinois State University. His research focused on the development of scientific reasoning. He then worked as a freelance copyeditor before joining PLOS ONE in 2022.
Jennifer TuckerAssociate Editor |
Jenny obtained her PhD in Medical Studies, with a focus potential novel interventions in two toxicological models of Parkinson’s disease through the University of Plymouth, with a large portion of her research undertaken at Florida International University. Following her PhD, Jenny worked at the University of Bath investigating imprinted genes and lncRNAs in breast and colon cancer. She joins the PLOS ONE team in August 2023 with over two years’ experience in scientific publishing at Frontiers.
Johanna PrullerAssociate Editor |
Johanna studied Biomedical Engineering (BSc) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (MSc) at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum in Vienna, Austria, followed by a Wellcome Trust funded PHD at King’s College London in Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, where she developed a gene therapy for the rare childhood cancer rhabdomyosarcoma. She then stayed at King’s for a post-doc and fellowship investigating neuromuscular diseases. During this time, Johanna got interested in the publishing world, and this led to her joining PLOS ONE in August 2023.
Life Sciences
Paraminder DhillonDivision Editor |
Paraminder received her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry & Genetics from the University of Nottingham and her PhD in Pathology from the University of Cambridge, where she studied aspects of flagellar type III secretion in S. typhimurium. She began her editorial career in 2011 as Assistant Editor for the BMC journal Genome Medicine. After a brief stint as a science editor at Cambridge University Press, she returned to STM journal publishing in 2013 as Scientific Editor for Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), and subsequently moved to The FEBS Journal as its Managing Editor. She joined PLOS ONE in 2023 and is looking forward to contributing to open science and community-driven initiatives.
Miquel Vall-llosera CampsSenior Editor |
Miquel received his BsC in Biology from the University of Barcelona. In 2012 he completed a PhD in Ecology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His topic of research was the ecology of avian invasions, particularly what makes a species a successful invader and how this knowledge can be used to prevent the impacts of the invaders. He then moved to the University of Adelaide for a postdoctoral position examining the pet trade as a pathway of introduction of invasive bird species. In 2017 he became an Assistant Professor at Shinshu University researching international exotic bird trade. Miquel has a wide range of interests in life sciences including biodiversity conservation, global change ecology, natural history, evolutionary biology, and paleontology. He joined PLOS ONE in June 2018.
Jianhong ZhouSenior Editor |
Following her undergraduate studies in Pharmaceutical Administration, Jianhong obtained a Masters in Bioinformatics from China Pharmaceutical University and a PhD in Systems Biology at Soochow University spending two years in Indiana University for her PhD training. Her doctoral research initially focused on protein structure/function predictions, and later changed into protein disorder/function predictions. She then worked as a postdoc at iHuman institute in ShanghaiTech University investigating the functions of intrinsically disordered regions in signaling and regulatory proteins. She joined PLOS ONE in July 2019.
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Carla PegoraroDivision Editor
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Carla grew up in Pisa, where she obtained BEng and MEng degrees in Biomedical Engineering working on molecularly imprinted membranes for the recognition of specific biomolecules. She then earned a doctorate from the University of Sheffield, UK, with a project focused on transdermal needle free drug delivery under the supervision of professors Sheila MacNeil and Giuseppe Battaglia. During her PhD and research fellowship working on polymersome vaccine delivery, she became intrigued by the other side of scientific research: communication and publishing. This led her to the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge, UK. There she worked for 4 years as a Publishing Editor on a variety of journals covering all aspects of chemistry. She was also strongly involved in cover commissioning and writing for Chemistry World. She joined PLOS ONE in November 2016.
Hanna LandenmarkSenior Editor |
Hanna received an undergraduate degree in Astrophysics (MPhys), from The University of Edinburgh, before pursuing a PhD at the UK Centre for Astrobiology at the same institution. Her research focussed on microbial community assembly and the colonisation by microorganisms of novel rocky environments, and the associated rock weathering and geochemical alterations. She has a strong interest in understanding the complexity of the biosphere and the Earth-life system, as well as a personal interest in zoology and biodiversity. Hanna is passionate about science communication and Open Access publishing, with an interest in how scientific knowledge is disseminated and curated, and how this affects and enhances society as a whole. She gained extracurricular experience in editing and publishing through various endeavours during her PhD studies, before joining the PLOS ONE team in 2018.
Hugh CowleySenior Editor |
Hugh received his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences (MSci) from the University of Cambridge, UK, with a Master’s research project in catalytic amine-borane dehydrocoupling. He undertook graduate research in thiazyl synthesis, electron paramagnetic resonance and X-ray crystallography at the University of Windsor, Ontario, before deciding on a career in scientific publishing. Hugh joined the Royal Society of Chemistry as an editor for ChemComm, subsequently working on Chemical Science, Chemical Society Reviews and RSC Advances. He then moved into the development of a wide range of specialist chemistry and materials science journals, and newly launched engineering journals Reaction Chemistry & Engineering and MSDE. His strong interest in accessibility and equity in scientific communication led him to open access publishing at PLOS, and he joined the PLOS ONE team in 2021.