Dr Creasey is a senior post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr Paul Hunt, University of Edinburgh (genetics of artemisinin drug resistance in a rodent malaria model). Her special interests have been in the field of tropical medicine and tropical parasitic diseases, with training in the epidemiological aspects of disease. Her field experience in serology and microbiology involved a number of anti-parasitic drug trials in Africa. Later in Edinburgh, genetics and molecular biology were focused on. Dr Creasey has the ability to communicate science in clear, unambiguous language. During her career she has edited journal articles and PhD theses for scientists from China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, and most African countries. Dr Creasey joined Edanz Editing as an editor in 2007.

Dr Patel is a neuroscientist interested in central nervous system degeneration and mental illness. For his doctoral thesis he developed a mouse gene-knockout model for the human neurological disorder aceruloplasminemia. Subsequently, as a research fellow at the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School he studied the molecular signaling cascades involved in nerve cell migration. Dr Patel has recently focused his research on the molecular genetics of psychiatric illness as an associate at the Douglas Mental Health Institute in Montreal. His studies center on microRNA signaling networks involved in major depression and suicide. Dr Patel has published a number of first-author articles in high-impact journals, including The Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Neuroscience. He began editing for the Edanz Group in 2011.

Mr Knight’s Master’s research focused on the neuronal adaptation underlying a visual illusion. He has extensive experience with cognitive neuroscience research paradigms, brain-imaging techniques (including electroencephalography; EEG, and functional magnetic resonance imaging; fMRI), data analysis, and experimental design in neuroscience, cognitive, perceptual and behavioural science. At the University of Auckland, he tutored undergraduate general psychology, neuroanatomy, cognitive and perceptual psychology, and biopsychology courses. Mr Knight studied as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, undertaking research involving evolutionary and comparative psychology, zoology, anthropology, developmental psychology, animal behaviour and human ecology. In 2008, Mr Knight was employed by the University of Otago as an editor and writer of research papers from 11 years of collected data in biology, zoology, climatology, marine systems and ecology. Mr Knight’s research has been presented at several international conferences, and he has published peer-reviewed papers in psychology, zoology and ecology. Mr Knight began working as an editor with the Edanz Group in early 2009.

Dr Humphries is a mathematician whose research areas include phylogenetics, graph theory, matroid theory, and number theory. His research also involves theoretical, discrete and general mathematics, along with combinatorics. Dr Humphries brings excellent writing and editing skills from his work experience as an English teacher, and more recently as an instructor and lecturer for university-level mathematics students. Dr Humphries began working with the Edanz Group in early 2009.

Dr Feizollahi is a lecturer in Linguistics at Rhodes University, South Africa. She teaches phonetics & phonology, the linguistics of sign language, computational linguistics, semantics and pragmatics. Although linguistics is generally a field of the humanities, her research focuses on acoustic phonetics and she therefore has knowledge of the physical sciences, quantitative experiments and statistical presentation of results. Dr Feizollahi carries out acoustic studies as well as supervising student research projects. Her research is well published and she has presented her studies at academic conferences. Dr Feizollahi’s background in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) has supported her work for Sony, Microsoft Speech Labs and LiveOps in the speech and NLP industries. She also has an interest and studies in the fields of economics and international law. Dr Feizollahi, a native speaker of English, is multilingual, being fluent in Spanish with an understanding of Turkish, Norwegian, German and Farsi. She began working as an editor for the Edanz Group in 2011.

Ms Stallard has six years’ legal experience working as a solicitor. Her areas of interest are commercial, employment, criminal, and family law. She also has a BA, majoring in history and psychology. Ms Stallard has extensive writing and editing experience, spanning 14 years. She joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2007.

Dr Toni Atkinson is a research scientist specializing in mycology. Dr Atkinson’s long-standing interest in writing is evidenced by her initial degree in anthropology and English literature. Her mycological focus is ascomycete microfungi, and their taxonomic and methodological challenges. She enjoys finding new species in wild natural landscapes in New Zealand. Dr Atkinson also worked with hyphomycete specialists in Ottawa, Canada, in 2009. She has presented at two international conferences and at several North American venues. Her special interests include interrelationships between organisms, biospheric energy cycles, and implications for sustainable living. Dr Atkinson joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2010.

Ms Holmes is a senior academic, recently retired from the position of Director of the University Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. As a qualified Chartered Surveyor, she practiced and taught surveying for many years, before moving into research and development support for academics in their teaching careers. This cross disciplinary role exposed her to working with academics from all disciplines across the University. She has published in the fields of education, surveying and academic audit and has been on national selection panels for the allocation of research and development funding both in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. With her diverse background in languages, surveying and education, Ms Holmes edits in the fields of environment, engineering, business, geography and general science, and bring specialist knowledge to the editing of grant and academic position applications. She began working with the Edanz Group in 2010.

Mr Forster worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Immunogenetics in Tübingen, Germany, before leaving to work as a freelance translator and copy editor of medical books and journals, primarily for Springer Verlag. He became an in-house editor with Springer in Heidelberg before moving to Tokyo to work in Springer's Tokyo office. For the past 20 years, Stephen has worked mostly in journalism and as a freelance writer and editor for such journal publishers. Mr Forster joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2010.

Timothy Hacksley read English, Latin, and Greek at Rhodes University in South Africa, and has a Masters degree in English. In his thesis, he examined the poetry of 16th Century recusant and priest smuggler, Henry Vaux, and produced a critical edition of the poems with extensive commentary. While teaching at Rhodes, he published several review articles relating to Renaissance and South African literature. He is currently an English teacher and educational writer. Mr Hacksley joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2011.

Ms Stewart is a skilled editor who worked for many years for an international publisher. After graduating with a degree in geology, Ms Stewart began work in the editing field. A native English speaker, she also speaks French, Spanish, and Chinese, and has over twenty years of scientific editing experience helping nonnative authors get published. She joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2011.

Ms Fried, a qualified pharmacist, is a medical editor with more than 20 years’ editing experience. She has edited articles in a range of fields with special interest in general medicine, gastroenterology, gastric cancer, rheumatology, health and life sciences. Ms Fried was also an in-house copy editor in Springer Verlag’s Tokyo office. In Tokyo, she edited books in various medical fields for Springer Verlag and for the University of Tokyo Press. She has also been a trainer for business-writing. Ms Fried joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2011.

Dr Hare has been editing professionally for 13 years, the past 7 in academic editing. Dr Hare edits manuscripts from a language-based perspective and has edited over 1300 papers in fields as diverse as humanities and the social sciences, medicine, health and the physical sciences, and engineering. He is presently writing a guide to writing and editing entitled “The Communicative Train: Writing that Effectively Conveys and Successfully Delivers its Message.” Dr Hare began working as an editor with the Edanz Group in 2010.

Mr Walker was awarded a United States Fulbright Fellow Scholar for study and research in Japan, 1996–1997, and then a Monbushou (Monbukagakushou) Research Scholarship from Japan’s Ministry of Education, 1998–2003. He has also been awarded a Korea Foundation Scholarship for Language Training at the Yonsei University, Korean Language Institute, Seoul, 2005–2006. Mr Walker is a linguistics expert and fluently reads and speaks Japanese and Korean, as well as reading and speaking Mandarin. He has worked as a part-time manuscript editor for Edanz Editing since 2003, becoming full-time in 2006, and specializing in areas of psychology, and social and environmental studies. Mr Walker is presently the Chief Editor and Director of Edanz Editing’s Beijing office, Liwen Bianji.

Ms Korndoerfer's academic training is diverse. As well as studies in the health and environmental sciences, she also has experience in the fields of nutrition, urban planning, physical and human geography, and ecology. For her Master’s thesis she investigated the natural resource dependence of a rural Nigerian village, using a combination of social sciences, ecological, and remote sensing techniques. Ms Korndoerfer began working with the Edanz Group in early 2009.

Ms Olson has served as a production editor in the social science journals department at SAGE Publications, where she was responsible for production deadlines and consistency in language and style. Her work has focused on communications, psychology, cultural studies, ethnography, gender studies, attention disorders, education, and the armed forces. Currently, Ms Olson is a translations coordinator supervising translations for clinical trials using electronic patient-reported outcomes. She joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2009.