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.

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 Kamen’s original research was into the presence of freshwater archaea in New York State Lakes using PCR and DNA sequencing. He conducted fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) as part of his Master’s thesis. He also analyzed water samples for Chl A, Nitrogen, Phosphorous and TOC according to the APHA Standard Methods. Mr Kamen has also worked on environmental assessments of soil and groundwater contamination and the monitoring of chemicals in waterways. Mr Kamen gained over five years of experience as a senior microbiology analyst in New York using traditional microbiology techniques as well as GC, real time-PCR, and fluorescence microscopy various microbiological and biochemical techniques as well as the MIDI system. He was also in charge of all Legionella analysis, which was conducted in accordance with CDC guidelines. He has worked as a science editor for non-native authored manuscripts since 2006. Mr Kamen began as an editor with Edanz Editing and Liwen Bianji (Edanz Editing China) in 2008.

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.

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.