About Ed Gerstner / 印格致

Ed has been an editor with Nature Publishing Group for well over a decade, and is a passionate advocate for science and for open research. He obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Sydney in 1997, and spent five years in research at the Universities of Sydney, Cambridge and Surrey, and at Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill. He joined NPG in 2002 and has been an Associate Editor for Nature and Nature Materials, helped to launch Nature Physics as its Senior Editor, and is now responsible for forging closer links with the Chinese research community as the Executive Editor of Nature Communications. He is based in NPG's recently launched mainland China office in Shanghai.