Dr Kraabel’s PhD was in experimental condensed matter. Since 1995 he has worked in research and development in both academia and industry. His specialties are condensed matter physics, optics (linear and nonlinear), and materials science. His interests include conjugated polymers, nanocrystals, ultrafast pulsed lasers, nonlinear optics, light-matter interactions, and object-oriented programming. He has both authored and edited numerous reports for publication in peer reviewed scientific journals, as well as grant applications, patent applications and white papers. Dr Kraabel began as an editor with the Edanz Group in 2008.

Dr Nick Tucker trained in polymer technology at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Bradford, and his research continues to be interdisciplinary, working across polymer technology and science, agriculture, industrial design and manufacturing. At present, his major focus is the development of methods of nanocomposite manufacture from crop origin materials for possible application in the manufacture of sustainable composites, meiotic materials, and other ultra-high specific surface areas. Dr Tucker is a chartered engineer and a fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. His work in real-time computer control of reaction injection molding machines was the basis of his admission to charter membership in the British Computer Society. Currently, Dr Tucker leads a number of commercial biomaterials research collaborations at the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research. Dr Tucker has extensive writing and publication experience. He has published 9 refereed journal papers, and has 9 patent and registered design applications, 4 books, and 2 book chapters, as well as 17 government and commercial reports and 8 magazine articles. He has also presented 48 conference papers. Dr Tucker began editing for the Edanz Group in 2009.

Dr Wright has been editing scientific manuscripts for non-native authors since 1997 and has been an editor for Edanz Editing since 2004. His scientific background is diverse, with the main scientific fields being in chemistry (organic, organometallic, inorganic and surface), semiconductors, biosensors (transducers, DNA and protein arrays) and nanotechnology. In 1996/7, Dr Wright was a Post-doctoral Fellow at The University of Tokyo, Japan, investigating novel catalytic pathways capable of generating ammonia under milder conditions than presently used in industry. As well as working for Edanz Editing, Dr Wright, now based in the UK, continues as a research scientist in the field of bionanosensors.

Assoc Prof Michael Dewe retired in December 2006 as University of Canterbury IT Director and is currently an Adjunct Assoc Prof and a consultant to the Information and Communication Technology industry. Prior to his position as University IT Director, he was an Assoc Prof (Reader) in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Research interests focused on advanced instrumentation and data acquisition systems with specific applications to real-time power quality monitoring (harmonic analysis) and seismic earthquake measurement and recording. He lectured in engineering design, computer hardware, instrumentation, and engineering management. His early career was as an electronic systems engineer, designing flight and ground systems for satellites and launch vehicles for European Space Projects. A systems engineer, Assoc Prof Dewe has wide experience in applications of engineering to various scientific disciplines. He began working with the Edanz Group in 2008.

Dr Laura Kuhar is a research scientist in the Precious and Base Metals Hydrometallurgy group of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Perth, Australia. Dr Kuhar has always displayed an interest in writing and is currently a reviewer for the Minerals Engineering journal and a former assistant editor of the De Beers Science and Engineering Review. She has published six internationally refereed papers, over 40 peer-reviewed industry reports or technical notes, and has presented at two international conferences. Her work experience has been in chemical, mechanical, mineral and metallurgical processing and fundamental chemical research. Dr Kuhar edits in a variety of fields and began work with the Edanz Group in 2010.

Professor Emeritus in Chemistry and former Professor of Physical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Scurrell is actively involved in research into heterogeneous catalysis, surface chemistry and materials chemistry, with emphasis on applications in energy conversion processes, environmental catalysis and options for the conversion of coal, natural gas and solar (via biomass) into liquid hydrocarbon fuels. He has a strong interest in nanometal-polymer composites, their synthesis and properties. Professor Scurrell has held various positions over the past 40 years in industry, academia and research institutes in the UK, the USA, Denmark, Italy and South Africa, and presently has consulting interests in South Africa, China and the Middle East. Professor Scurrell has over 150 publications and joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2011.

Dr Lewalle is a multidisciplinary physicist with a background in semiconductor and condensed-matter physics. His PhD research examined quantum phenomena related to electron correlations in ultra-clean low-dimensional silicon MOSFETs and GaAs heterostructures. Dr Lewalle’s experiments made extensive use of cryogenic equipment and high-sensitivity electronic measurements at low temperatures. His post-doctoral study and recent research has focused on the physics of biological systems at the cellular and single-molecule levels. At King's College London, Dr Lewalle built and used an optical-tweezer system to measure the mechanical stiffness of single myosin molecules, the proteins that give rise to tension in muscle. Currently, at University College London, he studies the force-producing mechanisms in chemotactic cells. Dr Lewalle joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2011

Dr Nairn has over 15 years of research experience in Materials Science, Chemistry and Materials Engineering, mostly at Monash University and CSIRO, Australia. Her current research covers two main areas: Understanding and exploiting molecular mobility in materials, and Biological Materials Science. Her specific expertise is in the characterization of complicated materials. She collaborates with Synthetic Chemists, Molecular Biologists, Food Scientists, Mathematicians, Physicists and Chemical and Materials Engineers, and has published over 30 refereed papers. She has previously studied concrete, corrosion and corrosion monitoring, solid electrolytes and light metal alloys. She joined Edanz Group Japan as an editor in 2010.

Dr MacEwen has 26 years experience in the IT field as a faculty member in the Department of Computing and Information Science at Queen's University in Canada. During this time he has published numerous journal and conference papers, published a textbook on computer systems, and acted as a reviewer for several research journals. He has supervised numerous PhD dissertations and served on many engineering and natural science examination committees. Dr MacEwen also co-founded a software company, Andyne Computing Limited, and became a director when it became a successful public company. Since leaving Queen’s University 10 years ago, Dr MacEwen has been a technical editor and writer. The fields he focuses on include computer security, computer systems, software engineering, computer science, formal methods, requirements specification, electrical engineering, engineering, mathematics, information technology, telecommunications, computer networks, and operating systems. Dr MacEwen joined the Edanz Group as an editor and writer in 2010.

Mr MacDonald is an experienced information scientist in the electronic and electrical engineering field. Following post-graduate research in optical fiber laser gyroscopes, he worked for Thomson Scientific from 1994 to 2007 as an indexer and abstractor of academic and scientific papers for the Inspec database, specializing in electronics, optoelectronics and semiconductor electronics, and later telecommunications. He then worked in a patent analyst role for Thomson, providing content for the Derwent World Patent Index, covering electronic materials and manufacturing, semiconductor devices and circuits and their manufacture, and electronic display technology including liquid crystal and electroluminescent displays. He began working as an editor for Edanz Editing in 2008.

Daniel H. Broaddus completed his PhD in Applied & Engineering Physics at Cornell University in June 2010. Dr Broaddus has been an author or co-author on five manuscripts, including "Self-phase modulation at visible wavelengths in nonlinear ZnO channel waveguides", published in Applied Physics Letters. He has eight years of experience in optical science. While at Cornell, Dr Broaddus has been associated with the Cornell Center for Nanoscale Systems and led research projects in nanophotonics and nonlinear optics. His dissertation research has applications in ultra-high-bandwidth telecommunications, material science, and laser physics. During his tenure at Princeton, Dr Broaddus was a research intern at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where he gained a familiarity with plasma and high-field physics. His undergraduate thesis focused on high-density plasma generation in gases. Dr Broaddus joined the Edanz Group as a writer and editor in 2010.

Mr. Hunter has 27 years of professional experience since receiving the Master of Science degree. This experience embraces meteorology, hydrology, remote sensing, weather forecasting and modeling, renewable energy, geography, GIS, geophysics, oceanography, and professional education. Mr. Hunter is a world expert in the field of weather modification. He has fulfilled several leadership roles, including Air Force officer, research administrator, training leader, president of a hydrometeorology consulting firm, and operations director of an atmospheric research program in Turkey. Mr. Hunter has conducted research at the National Severe Storms Laboratory and National Center for Atmospheric Research in the USA, and at Risoe National Laboratory in Denmark. His publication record dates to 1980, with 29 publications to his name. Mr Hunter was an Associate Editor at Nature Reviews Nephrology from 2010 to April 2011. He speaks and writes English and Spanish. Mr. Hunter’s background allows him to diligently edit within the atmospheric and hydrologic sciences, most of the other earth sciences, and remote sensing.

Mr Brehaut has more than thirty years experience in Information Technology and Systems Engineering. His various roles in industry have included Systems Engineer, Program Manager, IT Manager, Consultant, Methodologist and Trainer, culminating in his appointment as Chief Architect and subsequently Director of Consulting for CSC Australia. One of Mr Brehaut’s roles at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) was Co-Lead of the world wide Architecture and Design Expert Group. The resultant report The Architecture Revolution, for which Geoff was the primary contributor and an editor, is available at: http://www.csc.com/lef/ds/56385-previous_lef_reports. During the period 1999–2001, Mr Brehaut presented papers at International and Australian conferences on aerospace joint venture program management and satellite data communications, respectively. He joined Edanz Group as an editor in 2011.

Mr Kurban’s research on condensed phase dynamics has involved quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. He has also examined the liquid phase through electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. This research has focused on the quantum spin-exchange rates and the possibility of using recollision rates to determine bulk properties of a liquid. Mr Kurban has published as a first author in the Journal of Chemical Physics. He has also conducted research for the solar physics project of the 60-ft Tower at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California. Mr Kurban began working as an editor for the Edanz Group in 2011.

Geoff Cardwell has over 35 years experience in the electrical power industry, mainly in quality systems and technology development; including being Project QA Coordinator for a South African nuclear power station team. He later became Group QA and Technology Manager for the ABB companies in South Africa. After moving to New Zealand in 1993 he worked as a consulting electrical engineer and also studied business systems and IT as well as lecturing post-graduate engineering management students on quality systems and business processes. Mr Cardwell has also researched delivery systems for health care. He was inaugural Chairman of the New Zealand National Committee of CIGRE, the Paris based International Council on Large Electric Systems. Mr Cardwell has presented papers at conferences in South Africa, the United States and New Zealand. His publications, including one in Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, have focused on TQM, but have also discussed failure prevention and transformer oil testing. Mr Cardwell began as an Edanz Group editor in 2010 and edits in fields related to engineering, business systems, information technology and health research topics.

With an undergraduate degree in Ceramic Engineering (a subdiscipline of Materials Engineering) and an MA in Professional Writing, Ms. Kieva has a broad background and sound foundation in science and scientific editing. She is experienced in editing for authors for whom English is not their first language, understanding the challenges facing these authors as they seek publication in professional journals. She joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2011.

Mr Campbell initially worked at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratories at the University of Cambridge in the UK, working with highly innovative microelectronic devices. He worked in the mobile telecommunications industry specializing in the design and implementation of test and monitoring systems for mobile telephony networks. Currently he is undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Mr Frew is presently a Master of Applied Science candidate in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research interests include medical image processing and ultrasonic transducer hardware, with applications to medical diagnosis and prostate brachytherapy. Previously, Mr Frew worked at Victoria University of Wellington as a research assistant and spent two and a half years at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, developing medical devices for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. He has experience in a diverse range of topics, including biomedical engineering, microtechnology, electronics and risk management. Mr Frew began working with the Edanz Group in early 2009.