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
“Life is hard, that’s why no-one surives” Queens of the Stone Age
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. Then I left the Nature family to join Cell Press as Head of Research Integrity and Author Experience, where I am now the Editor-in-Chief for Newton.
Bio in brief
2024
2023
2021
Editor-in-Chief, Newton, Cell Press
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Director of Author Experience, Cell Press
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Head of Research Integrity and Author Experience, Cell Press
Elsevier
2019
2016
Editor-in-Chief, Nature Communications
springer nature
Head of Editorial Process and Data Analytics, Nature journals
springer nature
2015
Senior Editor, Nature Energy
springer nature
2013
Senior Editor, Nature Nanotechnology
springer nature
2012
Associate Editor, Nature Communications
springer nature
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.