Nature Communications Editors Join Macmillan Office in Shanghai

Nature Communications Editors Join Macmillan Office in Shanghai PR Newswire SHANGHAI, China, November 28, 2012 SHANGHAI, China, November 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai is now home to two editors from one of the world's leading multidisciplinary science journals, the first time that Nature Publishing Group has based full-time editors in mainland China. Ed Gerstner, PhD, moved to Shanghai this month from NPG's London office to take up the role of Executive Editor, Nature Communications. He is joined by Assistant Editor Congcong Huang, PhD. Both are based at the growing office of Macmillan Publishers Limited located in downtown Shanghai. Gerstner and Huang are part of a global team of editors for Nature Communications, and the Shanghai team is expected to expand in the coming months. Congcong Huang gained a PhD from University of Cambridge and her undergraduate degree in physics from Peking University. She joins Nature Communications following post-doctoral research into the structure of liquid water at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Stanford, California "I'm proud to join this global team as an editor for Nature Communications, and to be returning to China at such an exciting time for science and research in my native country," said Huang. Gerstner joins Nature Communications following seven years as Senior Editor for Nature Physics, the leading primary research journal in the field. He has also served in editorial positions on Nature and Nature Materials.