PeerJ, an open access publisher of scholarly articles in the biological, life & medical sciences, has announced the appointment of Georgina Gurnhill into a new role of Director of Marketing & Communications, effective July 1. Based out of the publisher's London office, Georgina is the go-to-person for all community liaisons, press inquiries, and events.
Georgina joins PeerJ most recently from Digital Science where she headed up their central marketing and communications team, mentoring multiple start-up and early-stage tech businesses for the scientific community. With over 16 years experience in global scientific and medical publishing Georgina has also held senior strategic marketing positions at The Lancet, Thomson Reuters, Nature Publishing Group and Institute of Physics Publishing.
PeerJ is an Open Access publisher of peer reviewed articles, which offers researchers a lifetime publication plan, for a single low price, providing them with the ability to openly publish all future articles for free. PeerJ is based in San Francisco, CA and London, UK and can be accessed at https://peerj.com/. PeerJ's mission is to help the world efficiently publish its knowledge.
