'Nature in the 21st Century' with Magdalena Skipper

Past Event

Date
 31 January 2024, 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Location
 Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

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Join the Agile Initiative at the Oxford Martin School for a talk by Magdalena Skipper, Editor in Chief for Nature, as she discusses the journals’ role in the 21st century.

This event is organised by the Agile Initiative at the Oxford Martin School.

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Magdalena Skipper

Magdalena Skipper
Editor in Chief, Nature

As Editor in Chief, Magdalena leads Nature’s magazine and research editorial teams. A geneticist by training, she has considerable editorial and publishing experience: having started in Nature Publishing Group in 2001, she was Chief Editor of Nature Reviews Genetics, Senior Editor for genetics and genomics at Nature, and Executive Editor for the Nature Partner Journals.

Before joining Nature she was Editor in Chief of Nature Communications. She studied sex determination at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and Notch signalling in the vertebrate gut epithelium at the ICRF Laboratories (CRUK today).

She is passionate about mentorship, research integrity as well as open and equitable research practice. She is the editorial champion of diversity, equality and inclusion at Springer Nature. She serves on the advisory board of the University of Oxford Centre for Personalised Medicine and of the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publications; she is a member of the Scientific Advisory Council for the UK Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. She is a fellow of the International Science Council.