eLife has announced Anna Akhmanova, Professor of Cell Biology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, as a new Deputy Editor. Working alongside Eve Marder (Brandeis University, US) and Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany), and reporting to Editor-in-Chief Randy Schekman (University of California at Berkeley, US), Akhmanova will share a range of responsibilities. She will join the other Deputy Editors in assigning new submissions across the life and biomedical sciences to eLife's Senior Editors, help to maintain eLife's standards for scientific excellence, and contribute to policies and processes that ensure fair and decisive peer review.
Akhmanova has been on the eLife Editorial Board for over three years, serving first as a Reviewing Editor and as a Senior Editor beginning in 2016. She takes over as eLife's third Deputy Editor from Fiona Watt, who leaves her position at eLife in order to serve as Executive Chair of the UK Medical Research Council (MRC).
eLife aims to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that encourages and recognises the most responsible behaviours in science. The community behind eLife, including the research funders who support the journal, the editors and referees who run the peer-review process, and its Early-Career Advisory Group, is keenly aware of the pressures faced by early-stage investigators, and is working to create a more positive publishing experience that will help these researchers receive the recognition they deserve.
eLife aims to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that encourages and recognises the most responsible behaviours in science. It publishes important research in all areas of the life and biomedical sciences, which is selected and evaluated by working scientists and made freely available online without delay. eLife also invests in innovation through open-source tool development to accelerate research communication and discovery.
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