From science to science communication

from

Pisa, Italy

currently

Italy

favourite song lines

“You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need”, Rolling Stones

“When you believe in things that you don't understand, 
Then you suffer”, Stevie Wonder

As a high school student, I was fascinated by physics because I thought that it always had the right answers, explaining the workings of the natural world with elegant and accurate laws. I later found out at university how these laws are constantly under scrutiny, tested, scrapped, improved, evolved. I got even more interested, and embarked on a PhD.

When my time as a researcher was up, I decided to shift my attention from science to science communication, and I joined the Nature family of journals as an editor for Nature Communications, Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Energy. After a stint as the Head of Editorial Process and Data Analytics for the Nature titles, I re-joined Nature Communications as its Editor-in-Chief. Recently I left the Nature family to join Cell Press as Head of Research Integrity and Author Experience.

Bio in brief

2021

Head of Research Integrity and Author Experience, Cell Press

Elsevier

2019

2016

Editor-in-Chief, Nature Communications

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Head of Editorial Process and Data Analytics, Nature journals

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2015

Senior Editor, Nature Energy

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2013

Senior Editor, Nature Nanotechnology

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2012

Associate Editor, Nature Communications

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2009

Research Scientist

hitachi cambridge laboratory

2005

PhD in Physics

university of cambridge, uk

1999

Laurea Specialistica in Electronic Engineering

university of PISA, italy

Communicating science

papers handled

2,000

manuscript edited or written

150

talks given 

25 and counting

conferences attended 

Over 40

Science is fascinating. The thrilling feeling of discovery that you get when you expand your understanding of the natural world is priceless. If maths is the language in which the natural laws are written, science is the book that explains them. 

Before finding my call in science communication, I have done a fair bit of scientific research myself, and that's when I learnt first-hand how fluid the boundaries of knowledge still are — a far cry from the 'written-in-stone' impression of physics I had as a teenager.

In my editorial career I have had the privilege to contribute to scientific progress by selecting and publishing some of the cutting edge research outputs that are performed in laboratories worldwide. 

My passion for science hasn't changed a bit, and I am an advocate for a more widespread communication of scientific results among the general public.