Christian S.

Editorial Director at Cell Press for iScience and Heliyon

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

About

I am passionate about the dissemination of scientific information and the use of that information to help all kind of researchers to add to the knowledge of mankind. Over the years I have gained skills in (intercultural) communication, data analytics, customer relations, negotiation, marketing and strategy. Communication, Customer Relationship Management, scientific publishing and training. Alumni of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (PhD fellowship) and of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany where I received my PhD in biochemistry/ cell biology.

Experience

  • Cell Press (7 yrs)
    • Editorial Director for iScience and Heliyon
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    • Editorial Director at Heliyon
      Jun 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    • Lead Editor at Heliyon
      Jul 2019 - Jun 2023 · 4 yrs

      Leading the internal and external editorial team of Heliyon, a broad science open access journal published by Cell Press.

  • Elsevier (The Randstad, Netherlands)
    • Senior Publisher
      Aug 2017 - Jul 2019 · 2 yrs

      Managing a portfolio of 14 journals related to Analytical Chemistry and Sensors. - Developing productive relationships with editors, editorial board members and the general research community. - Conception of journal strategies and realizing content development both in quality and quantity. - Collaboration with company-wide teams to support deployment of new technologies. - Full budget responsibility. - Collaboration in a multidisciplinary team.

    • Publisher
      Sep 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr

      Managing a portfolio of 14 journals related to Spectroscopy in Chemistry. - Developing productive relationships with editors, editorial board members and the general research community. - Realizing content development both in quality and quantity. - Execution of a new journal launch. - Collaboration with company-wide teams to support deployment of new technologies.

    • Associate Publisher
      May 2015 - Sep 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Managing a portfolio of ten journals related to Spectroscopy in Chemistry. - Developing productive relationships with editors, editorial board members and the general research community. - Realizing content development both in quality and quantity. - Launch of a new journal (market analysis, idea development, marketing plan, strategic plan, implementation, monitoring). - Collaboration with company-wide teams to support deployment of new technologies.

  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (5 yrs 8 mos)
    • Scientific Manager
      Jan 2015 - May 2015 · 5 mos

      Preparation of the successful application for a collaborative research center for the Dept. of Cellular Biochemistry.

    • Research Scientist
      Nov 2013 - May 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Biochemistry in the Inst. for Cellular Biochemistry, Prof. Dr. P. Rehling Responsible for writing and peer reviewing manuscripts, supervision of PhD students. Investigation of the dynamics of the mitochondrial presequence translocase.

    • Biochemist
      Oct 2009 - Nov 2013 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      PhD project: “Protein interactions along the presequence import path way.” in the lab of Prof. Dr. P. Rehling, Dept. of Biochemistry II, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology

  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (7 mos)
    • Student Researcher
      May 2009 - Jul 2009 · 3 mos

      Lab rotation in the lab of Prof. Dr. T. Pieler, Department of Develop-mental Biochemistry: “Expression of miR-18 during Xenopus laevis development.”

    • Student Researcher
      Mar 2009 - May 2009 · 3 mos

      Lab rotation in the lab of Prof. Dr. P. Rehling, Department of Biochemistry II: “Cross-linking studies investigating protein topology and protein complex dynamics during the precursor translocation into mitochondria.”

    • Student Researcher
      Jan 2009 - Mar 2009 · 3 mos

      Lab rotation in the lab of Prof. Dr. J. Stülke, Department of Microbiology: “Identification of interaction partners of Bacillus subtilis pyruvate kinase.”

  • Bachelor Thesis at TU Dresden
    Feb 2008 - Aug 2008 · 7 mos

    “Silencing of the human mitochondrial assembly factor SURF1.” in the lab of Prof. Dr. G. Rödel