Event
BIOE Seminar Series: Pep Pàmies (Nature Biomedical Engineering)
Friday, April 23, 2021
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Virtual
Shawn He
shawnhe@umd.edu
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Chief Editor, Nature Biomedical Engineering
Trust, Peer Reviews, and Impact
In this discussion, the Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering will convey the role of selective journals in accelerating research, and provide examples of how journals can drive meaningful changes in peer review, steer communities toward sharing protocols, data and code, and help build trust in careful science reporting. He will argue that leading bioengineering journals should showcase the value that they provide to the communities they serve, empower researchers to help them advance discovery and technology for improving human health, and actively guide research communities toward better reporting standards, increased openness, more valuable scientific outputs and stories, and the most promising technological and translational solutions.
About the Speaker
Pep Pàmies is leading the editorial team of Nature Biomedical Engineering, a journal from the Nature family that launched in January 2017. Pep was an editor for Nature Materials for more than 5 years, where he championed the biomaterials content, handling manuscripts and commissioning articles in a wide variety of subjects, including tissue engineering, medical imaging, regenerative medicine, cancer therapy and diagnostics. Previously, Pep conducted research in computational soft matter and biophysics at Columbia University's Chemistry Department in New York City, at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, and at the Atomic and Molecular Physics Institute in Amsterdam. Pep obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Rovira i Virgili University in Catalonia, Spain.
