We want to celebrate our Winter School and invite all alumni (of the Winter School & other Career Center programs) to a Publishing Expert Talk & Get-together on April 25 from 6 PM.

Publishing your work in scientific journals is one of the central pillars in academia. As the main form of communicating your results to the scientific community, publishing endows both meaning to your work while also serving as a token of recognition, important to further your career.

In this expert talk, Patrick Zobel will give you a look behind the scenes of the publishing process by sharing his view as an editor at a scientific journal. In doing so, he will illustrate the stages your manuscript passes from initial submission to peer review and final publication, give you guidance on how to navigate them successfully, and talk about the work and prospects of an editor in the publishing industry.

About our expert – Patrick Zobel

Patrick is an editor at Nature Communications, the multidisciplinary flagship open-access journal from the Nature portfolio, where he sees manuscripts on photophysics, computational chemistry, and materials discovery through the publication process. Before joining Nature Communications, Patrick worked as an active researcher for almost 10 years at universities in Austria and Sweden.