HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University Libraries, has announced the appointment of Hugh Blackbourn as Senior Publication Manager, leading HighWire's customer support team based in the UK.
Hugh is an experienced publisher, having spent nearly 4 years as Head of Publishing for the Wellcome Trust, where he was responsible for all web and print publications profiling the Trust's activities. While at Wellcome Trust, he helped formulate the proposal that would become eLife, a researcher-led digital publication to be hosted on HighWire later this year.
Prior to working at the Wellcome Trust, Hugh was a publisher at Nature Publishing Group, where he led the Nature Reviews collection of journals (2004‐2007), launched Nature Protocols, and later led the Nature Life Sciences collection of journals (2007‐2008).
Hugh is a biologist by training, with a PhD from Reading University followed by postdoctoral research at both Reading and Cambridge University. He left academia to become the launch Editor of Trends in Plant Science, and subsequently became the Managing Editor of a range of Trends titles.
