ELSS の校閲者
President and Editor-in-Chief

Editors


Paul Church grew up in the UK and earned his Bsc (Hons) in Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences from Liverpool John Moores University in 2002. He has worked for various international companies including Alliance Healthcare in the UK and Astellas Pharma in Japan. His experience spans the breadth of drug development from entity discovery, clinical development, and formulation through to manufacture and pharmacovigilance. Paul has been a freelance editor since 2007 and he currently lives in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
Gen Del Raye grew up in Kyoto, Japan and earned his B.S. and M.S. in biology from Stanford University. His PhD is in oceanography (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Gen's background includes fish ecophysiology, climate change impacts, and exercise physiology. He has been working as a freelance translator and editor since 2015. Gen's translations include The Sea of Japan: Unraveling the Mysteries of its Hidden Depths, published by JPIC. Currently, he lives in Minneapolis, MN.
Robert Dennen received his BS (2008) in geology from Virginia Tech and dual MS degrees (2011) in geology from SUNY University at Buffalo and Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand, France), focusing on physical volcanology. He worked as a writer/editor and research assistant at the Global Volcanism Program (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History). Robert began his career as a freelance Earth science editor in 2015, and maintains an active interest in current research in volcanology and igneous petrology.
Bob Wathen has more than 30 years experience in academic editing and has edited for ELSS since 2006. He specializes in economics and in multidisciplinary areas where socioeconomics and science intersect, including climate change, energy and natural resources, and sustainable development. Bob has worked for universities, research organizations, government agencies, and publishers throughout the world. He earned degrees in economics and chemistry from the University of Illinois and was certified by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences in 1994.

Robert Freeman is a BELS-certified editor specializing in pharmaceuticals and the life sciences. Robert spent many happy years at the University of Western Australia exploring as many different areas of the sciences as he could before graduating in 1987 with a BSc (ostensibly majoring in computer science and theoretical linguistics, but with the greater part of his time spent studying Japanese). Of his subsequent 8 years or so in Japan, 5 were spent at the Mishima Institute for Dermatological Research (三嶋皮膚科学研究所) in Kobe studying molecular biology and honing his craft of scientific editing. In January 1995, the Great Hanshin Earthquake destroyed the lab and Robert returned to Australia. Robert has been working as a freelance editor ever since. Robert currently lives on a farm in the southwest of Western Australia with his wife and 2 children plus 15 sheep, 20 chickens, 2 cows, and 2 goats.
Geoffrey Hart has more than 35 years experience as a scientific editor and technology-transfer specialist (7 years with the Canadian Forest Service, 10 years with FERIC.ca, and 4 years as a freelancer). In 2007, Geoff was named a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, the world's largest professional group of technical communicators, in recognition of his work as a teacher and mentor, and for his work in international communication of science. He has given lectures and workshops on writing for journals, scientific communication, editing, and translation to graduate students and working professionals in North America, India, and China, and his talks have consistently rated within the top 5 to 10% at conferences.


Ann Munroe received a bachelor's degree in veterinary science in 1979 from the University of Sydney. After several years in small animal veterinary practice she began working as a medical writer for Sterling Pharmaceuticals in Sydney; she later became a science editor for the NSW Government. In 1989 she gained an Associate Diploma in Health Sciences. She is certified by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences and has been a freelance science editor since 1990.
Virginia M. (Ginger) Peschke earned MS and PhD degrees in Plant Breeding from the University of Minnesota. She then spent 15 years as a plant genetics researcher in both university and industry settings, with hands-on experience ranging from molecular biology in the laboratory to crop yield testing in the field. In 2005, Ginger became a self-employed writer and editor, and she is certified by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences. She has written and edited journal manuscripts, laboratory protocols, and teaching materials for academic and corporate laboratories, science publishers, and individual authors. Ginger lives near Saint Louis, Missouri, with her husband, two children, and two cats.

