eLife has announced the appointment of Timothy (Tim) Behrens as the new Deputy Editor. Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at Oxford University and University College London (UK), and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, was formerly a Senior Editor for eLife. He will now work alongside Deputy Editors Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany) and Anna Akhmanova (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and with Editor-in-Chief Michael Eisen (University of California at Berkeley, US). His new role on the leadership team will involve helping to maintain eLife’s standards for scientific excellence, and contributing to policies and processes that ensure fair, constructive and effective peer review.
Behrens’ appointment as eLife Deputy Editor comes shortly after Eisen’s announcement of new initiatives to enhance the value of eLife’s peer-review process. The goal of the initiatives is to make the outcomes of peer review more valuable to the community.
Behrens takes over from Deputy Editor Eve Marder, who stepped down at the end of 2019. eLife will have more to say about this in the coming days.
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