eLife has announced Michael (Mike) Eisen as its new Editor-in-Chief.
A world leader in advocacy for open science, Eisen, from University of California, Berkeley, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), was chosen following a worldwide search and selection process. In addition to his scientific achievements as an HHMI Investigator and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, he has demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to reforming research communication for the benefit of scientists and society.
Eisen takes over from Randy Schekman, eLife's founding Editor-in-Chief, who stepped down in January to dedicate more time to his role as Chair of the Advisory Council for the Aligning Science Across Parkinson's initiative.
Eisen played an integral role in kick-starting the open-access movement, which seeks to make the scientific literature freely available to all readers. In 2001, together with his former postdoctoral advisor Patrick Brown (then at Stanford University) and Harold Varmus (formerly director of the National Institutes of Health), Eisen founded Public Library of Science (PLOS), a non-profit advocacy organisation that pioneered open-access publishing. When Eisen founded his own lab in 2000, he made the rare commitment to publish exclusively in open-access journals, and has done so ever since.
Eisen will work with the organisation's Product, Innovation and Technology teams to help build open-source tools that improve the communication of new research. He will also provide strong support for eLife initiatives, such as the work of the Early-Career Advisory Group and the eLife Ambassadors' programme, to ensure that the entire community helps to shape the future of eLife and research communication.
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