Day in Life of a Scientific Editor [online event] Oct 2021

Join this event to discover career support resources at NTU Library; also find out what a publishing editor does and get career insights from a scientific editor’s perspective.

Session 1 - Career Resources at NTU Library

Career support for Graduate students 

Business intelligence on companies, industries and technology

Lifelong learning and development 

Current news & staying updated on the move  

Session 2 - Day in Life of a Scientific Editor

Journey as an academic

Transition to an editor

Responsibilities of an editor in a scientific publisher

Tips to postgraduate students

Speakers:

Lena Sam, Senior Librarian, NTU Library
Lena is a Senior Librarian with NTU Library's Academic Engagement Team. She is a liaison librarian for College of Engineering, College of Science and Nanyang Business School.

Dr Ramesh Premnath, Senior Publishing Editor, Springer Nature
Dr. Ramesh Premnath is a senior publishing editor for academic books covering South East Asia and Australasia. His academic background includes BSc, MSc, PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, with 4 years as a postdoctoral researcher working in the field of ferroelectric/ piezoelectric materials. During his time at Springer, he has launched several scientific journals and developed a substantial regional book program

Update 4 Oct 2021: Dr. Akash Chakraborty, Associate Publishing Editor Springer, Heidelberg will also be joining this event. Following his PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from Institute Neel/CNRS Grenoble, Dr Akash was an early researcher at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), Jacobs University Bremen, and post-doc at University of Regensburg.  At Springer, he manages/ develops journals on low temperature physics, complexity, and data science. 

This event is organised in collaboration with NTU GSA and Springer Nature.

The event link will be emailed to registered participants before the event.