We’ve been looking for a while for a new colleague to work with us putting out your favorite neuroscience journal. Maybe you’d be interested? Or know someone who might be?? Let us know! Feel free to ask questions, too, if you’re interested but not quite sure what the job entails. Here is our job ad (it closes this coming Sunday officially, but I’m sure we’ll look at applications that come in a bit late…) :
Assistant Editor – Nature Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience has a position available for an Assistant Editor. The journal publishes high-quality papers in all areas of neuroscience, including molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive and computational studies, and provides a highly visible forum for communicating important advances to a broad readership. For more information about the journal, see our website.
Applicants should have a PhD, a strong research background (preferably in cellular or systems neuroscience), broad interest in neuroscience, excellent literary skills, commitment to the communication of scientific ideas, and willingness and ability to learn new fields. Familiarity with online publishing would be an advantage. The successful candidate will participate in all aspects of the editorial process, including manuscript selection, commissioning and editing News and Views and Reviews, and writing for the journal. The job also involves attending meetings in the US and abroad to maintain contact with the international scientific community. The new editor will join our team in the Manhattan office of the larger publishing group that also produces Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Nature Methods and Nature Immunology.
To apply, please submit a curriculum vitae, a short (500-1000 words) News and Views-style article on an exciting and newsworthy recent development in any area of neuroscience, and a cover letter explaining your interest in the position to Human Resources Department, Nature Publishing Group, email: admin@natureny.com.
Applications should arrive as soon as possible, and no later than February 26, 2006.