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 Lundin's PhD was entitled "Electroluminescent and Photoluminescent Properties of Metal-Based Compounds". Her research has focused on the development of new materials for application in light-emitting diodes. Dr Lundin undertook a post-doctoral research project at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, that involved applying metal-coordinated graphene complexes in optoelectronic devices. Dr Lundin has experience in organic synthesis, inorganic synthesis, photophysical characterization, X-ray crystallography and the fabrication and testing of prototype light-emitting diodes. Dr Lundin is an experienced scientific writer with a number of published peer-reviewed journal articles, including a cover article in Angewandte Chemie. Dr Lundin joined the Edanz Group as a specialist science editor, writer and reviewer 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.

McPherson's background is in chemistry. For her PhD, “Sulfur-substituted alkyl complexes of platinum and palladium,” she investigated the synthesis and properties of sulfur-substituted organoplatinum and organopalladium complexes. She has over 25 years' experience in scientific publishing, working mainly in the physical sciences and engineering. She has been an independent publishing and editorial consultant since 2002 and began working for the Edanz Group in 2009.

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 Mosi’s PhD studies involved the mechanism of reaction of two alpha glycosyltransferases, glycogen phosphorylase and cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase, through the use of modified substrates and inhibitors. Dr Mosi is a senior research scientist with eight years’ experience in pharmaceutical drug research. She has developed and implemented novel assays for the purpose of the identification of inhibitors of metallo-enzymes as antibacterials and inhibitors of cysteine proteases for the treatment of cancer. Dr Mosi has applied expertise in enzymology, receptor based cell biology, drug metabolism and protein purification and production. As well, she has designed and standardized systems and procedures for interpreting scientific results. She also has a sound knowledge of FDA guidelines and is trained in GLP and GMP procedures. Dr Mosi is a past member of the Drug Information Association, International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics, Society for Biomolecular Screening, American Society of Microbiology, and the Canadian Society of Chemistry. As first author of 10 published, peer reviewed manuscripts, and as editor of numerous other papers in fields of biology, biochemistry, chemistry and pharmacology, Dr Mosi brings an extensive writing background to her editing work for Edanz Editing.

Before joining The Edge Learning Center (Hong Kong) as Head of Science and Mathematics, Dr Hillhouse held the position of Full Professor of Physics at Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and the University for Information Science and Technology (Macedonia). His research focuses on the development of relativistic nuclear models (structure and scattering) for studying the properties of neutron stars (pulsars) and for the interpretation of lepton and nucleon-induced polarization observables on nuclei measured at medium energies. Dr Hillhouse has published more than 50 scientific papers and has been a research scholar at several universities (Indiana University and Peking University, and at Osaka and Kyushu Universities in Japan). His leadership roles include: Head of the Nuclear Physics at Stellenbosch University, Chairperson of Nuclear Physics User Group at the iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences, and Chairperson of the Nuclear, Particle and Radiation Physics Specialist Group of the South African Institute of Physics. He is also an editor of the Central European Journal of Physics. Dr Hillhouse began working as an editor with the Edanz Group in 2011

Cameron McLeod is Emeritus Professor (Chemistry) at the University Of Sheffield, having been Director of the Centre for Analytical Sciences (1995–2011) and Head of Department of Earth Sciences (1997–2000). His research focus has been in trace element spectrochemistry, and laser and plasma spectrochemical analysis, Professor McLeod has published extensively in these areas, and in the fields of atomic mass spectrometry and laser ablation. His work has had an impact on the environmental, materials and life sciences sectors. Professor McLeod has served on the boards of several leading Analytical Science journals. He joined the Edanz Group as an editor and specialist reviewer in 2011.

Dr Roberts has experience in a wide range of research fields. His PhD research focused on measuring effective charges in nonaqueous colloidal systems using optical tweezers in combination with an electrophoretic cell. After completing his PhD, he worked for two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the AIBN, in the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. His research used tunable nanopores to detect the biomodification of nanoparticles, aiming to develop a simple, easily applied bioassay technique. Dr Roberts is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Materials Science Research Centre at Chiang Mai University, Thailand. He works in the area of nanotechnology attempting to create stronger carbon nanotube networks. Dr Roberts joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2011.

Dr Alexander is currently a postdoctoral research associate at Montana State University's Molecular Beam Facility where he studies gas/surface and gas/gas reaction dynamics. His research interests include experimental and computational chemical physics, and he has experience in surface spectroscopy, ultra-high vacuum, and atomic/molecular beam techniques. He has authored more than 10 scientific papers, with first-authored papers accepted to the Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, and Faraday Discussions. He regularly presents at national and regional conferences. Dr Alexander is also interested in the incorporation of modern pedagogical techniques in chemical education. Dr Alexander began working an editor for the Edanz Group in 2011.

Dr Cooper's PhD thesis was entitled "A Computer Simulation Study of the Interaction of Surfactants with Mineral Surfaces". He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Industrial Research Ltd. in New Zealand, computationally studying self-adsorbed monolayers of long-chain thiols on gold surfaces. He then worked at the University of Cambridge where he was funded by the pharmaceutical industry to investigate the thermodynamic properties of organic molecular solids. Dr Cooper has published 14 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has presented his work at numerous international scientific conferences. His expertise is in the area of computational materials science and he has considerable experience in the computational methods that are used to study solid-state materials. He 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 Brotchie is actively researching the modification and functionalization of metal surfaces. His PhD was in the field of acoustics and sonochemistry. Dr Brotchie is the author of 10 high-impact peer review journal publications and two book chapters, and has given numerous presentations at international conferences. He joined the Edanz Group as an editor in 2011.

Dr Burns was a staff scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, for 31 years. His career began with gas phase laser spectroscopy with applications to quantum-resolved detection of molecules desorbed from transition metal surfaces. After many years of research in the field of desorption induced by electronic transitions, he began to focus on interfacial tribology and investigated the molecular-level aspects of friction with novel scanning probe techniques and conjugated polymer interfaces. During his final years of active research, he collaborated with the Dept. of Pathology at the University of New Mexico on the structural characterization of signaling domains in cellular membranes using combined atomic force microscopy and fluorescence imaging. Dr Burns 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 Young’s research interests are in surface chemistry and interface science, particularly spectroscopy at surfaces/interfaces and the chemistry/reactivity of adsorbed species. His PhD thesis, entitled ‘Chemistry at Cadmium Sulfide Surfaces’, investigated the surface chemistry of synthetic inorganic particles, and explored factors important for their use in biological imaging applications. His current post doctoral research includes quantum dot based solar energy generation, and novel photo-catalytic nanotechnologies for marine antifouling applications. Dr Young's publication record includes papers from the fields of inorganic coordination polymers, nanoparticle synthesis and optical properties, adsorption kinetics and equilibria, structural properties of proteins at surfaces, and a comprehensive review entitled 'Square planar silver(I) complexes: A rare but increasingly observed stereochemistry for silver(I)', published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews. Dr Young began working as an editor with the Edanz Group 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.

Dr Colton's research background in biochemistry focused on lipid biochemical pathways in marine invertebrates and mammalian skin. His doctoral thesis involved describing the biochemical pathways for sebaceous lipid production in the genus Equus through radio-label, structural analysis, and comparative biochemical studies. His post-doctoral work involved relating the giant ring lactones of equine sebum to the epidermal water barrier of mammalian skin. Dr Colton is a generalist scientist and, as a college professor, taught courses from inorganic and organic chemistry to biochemistry and molecular biology to nuclear physics and astronomy. He has advised and edited numerous theses, papers, and articles for colleagues and students. He has published 13 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has been an active editor since 2007. Dr Colton began editing for the Edanz Group in 2009.

Mr Dods has a broad scientific and international background having worked in China and Japan on projects of characterizing rubber compounds with the Yokohama Rubber Company in Hiratsuka, Japan and developing certified reference materials for environmental analysis with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan. Currently, he is a postgraduate researcher investigating electrospun nanofibers for bioprocessing as part of a collaboration between the Advanced Centre of Biochemical Engineering at the University College London, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, UK. The aim is to develop affinity chromatography membranes for purification in the downstream processing of biomolecules by chemical functionalizing nanofiber mats and allowing ion exchange groups, protein or enzyme immobilization. Relevant applications are in tissue engineering and drug release matrices. Mr Dods joined the Edanz Group in 2009, working for a year as an in-house editor based in Beijing before returning to the UK.

Mr Betzel is currently a doctoral student at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he is investigating the use of synthetic diamonds as X-ray detectors for clinical applications. Mr Betzel has over six years of experience authoring medical, accelerator, and detector physics research in peer-reviewed journals and other publications. He has laboratory experience at both the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. He worked previously for three years in a professional engineering research and manufacturing environment. Mr Betzel began working as an editor with the Edanz Group in 2008.

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.