About the Editors
Like the other Nature titles, Nature Plants has no external editorial board. Instead, all editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of professional editors, with relevant research and editorial backgrounds.
Chief Editor: Chris Surridge
Chris has spent the last two decades honing his skills until he was finally ready to lead the editorial team of Nature Plants. Chris gained a PhD in Biophysics from Imperial College, London in 1992 studying the dynamics of microtubule assembly. He left the bench for scientific publishing in 1993 initially as Assistant Editor on Nature Structural Biology, and then as a member of the editorial team at Nature where he has handled topics as diverse as structural biology, neuroscience and systems biology. He became the Plant Sciences editor of Nature in 1999 just in time for the publication of the Arabidopsis genome. In 2005 he joined the Public Library of Science (PLoS) as the Managing Editor of PLoS ONE, before returning to Nature as a Senior Editor in 2008. From 2009 to 2014 he was Chief Editor of Nature Protocols. Chris has also spent time as Nature's Web Editor and as the Editor of the now defunct Brief Communication section.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4264-5176
Senior Editor: Jun Lyu
Before joining Nature Plants in 2014, Jun received his PhD from the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he studied crop genomics. His research focused on understanding the genetic basis of selected agronomic traits in rice, such as upland adaptation, by means of comparative and evolutionary genomics. He was also trained in a functional genomics lab in the institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, between 2008 and 2009, where he studied the mechanism of temperature/photoperiod sensitive male sterility in rice using transgenic lines. His interest includes plant genetics, epigenetics and evolution. He received the Ray Wu Prize in 2013.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7596-3843
Senior Editor: Guillaume Tena
A long time ago, in a faraway country, Guillaume was sitting at a bench, with a scalpel in his hand. It was during a university practical training session in biology. He was looking at a frog, and the frog was looking at him. Something happened. Right there, very suddenly, he decided once and for all that he would not study animal biology. The frog escaped alive, and Guillaume escaped towards a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Montpellier, France, working on auxin and MAP kinases in tobacco cells. As a post-doc, he spent fourteen years in Boston, USA, in Jen Sheen’s lab at Harvard / MGH, to study the involvement of MAP kinases in plant defence signalling and abiotic stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. He then realized that he just spent almost half of his life working on MAP kinases, and he decided he would never write this word again in his biography. Back in France for a year, he enrolled in a Master in Scientific Communications at the University of Strasbourg, and officialised his escape from the bench by joining the editorial team at Nature Plants in London, UK.
ORCID: 0000-0001-8652-905X
Associate Editor: Raphael Trösch
Raphael spent almost 15 years investigating chloroplasts before joining Nature Plants in 2022. After undergraduate studies at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), he obtained a PhD from the University of Leicester (UK) where he investigated mutants that suppress defects associated with chloroplast protein import. After that, he worked for several years as a post-doc at the TU Kaiserslautern and the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, studying translational regulation of chloroplast gene expression in algae and flowering plants, respectively. Although his main expertise is chloroplast biology, his interest is and always was to understand plant life as a whole. Or else, as much of it as is possible.
ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-3324
