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Associate or Senior Editor, Communications Physics

DE / CN💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-26

Core

Associate or Senior Editor for Communications Physics, a multidisciplinary open access journal in physics, responsible for manuscript selection, peer review oversight, and content strategy.

Role type

Senior IC scientific editor (physics)

Builds

High-impact scientific content for the Nature Communications Physics journal

Domain

Physics (optical physics, photonics, plasma, laser physics)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

PhD level research experience in physics, critical scientific evaluation, manuscript assessment, editorial decision making, content commissioning, scientific writing, conference engagement, social media management

Preferred skills

Editorial experience, expertise in optical physics/photonics, interest in plasma/laser physics, news-type feature writing

Technologies

None stated

Responsibilities

Handling original research papers and overseeing peer review, making editorial decisions on submitted manuscripts, contributing to content and strategy, collaborating with external editorial board members, commissioning and editing reviews or editorials, liaising with editors and experts, attending conferences and visiting research institutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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