PLoS ONE Team
Peter Binfield
Managing Editor, PLoS ONE
After graduating with a PhD in Optical Physics from Aberdeen University, Pete Binfield began his publishing career at Institute of Physics Publishing in Bristol, UK as a Commissioning Editor in their books program. From IoPP, he moved to Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) in the Netherlands, where he ran their Major Reference Work program (encyclopedias and handbooks) and then held a variety of positions at KAP, including the management of the Physical Sciences group (Physics, Materials Science, Chemistry) and the directorship of the Plant Sciences and Earth & Environmental Sciences division. KAP merged into Springer Publishers, and during that period he held a position in Business Development, working on projects such as e-books, e-reference works and the Springer Open Choice program. In 2005 he moved to the US to live in California and work for SAGE Publications running their successful US Journals Division (some 220 journals across medical and social sciences). Since April 2008, Peter has been the Managing Editor of PLoS ONE - running the editorial side, and managing the day to day business of the journal.
Emma Veitch
Consulting Editor, PLoS ONE
Senior Editor, PLoS Medicine
Emma Veitch graduated in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1996, and subsequently moved to London to do a Ph.D. with Anthony Graham at King's College London. Her work at King's focused on the role of neural crest cells in the development of pharyngeal arches in the chick embryo. There she became passionate about the Web and its potential for transforming scientific communication. Having learnt about the open access movement which was taking shape at that time, she joined the then fledgling BioMed Central as an editorial assistant, and subsequently senior assistant editor. At BioMed Central she handled peer review of primary research papers, as well as project-managing development of online submission and peer review systems. Emma subsequently moved to another fledgling operation published by Elsevier's FIRSTConsult, an online clinical decision support tool. There she oversaw commissioning and peer-review of new content for the site and furthered her interest in clinical research. Delighted to make a return to the world of open access publishing, Emma is thrilled to be initiating a project where she can combine her enthusiasm for biomedical research with experience developing electronic publishing systems.
Lindsay King
Publications Manager
Lindsay King came to PLoS after recently graduating with a BSc in Natural History and Marine Biology from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. She has a passion for museums, particularly those with a scientific or natural history focus and believes that science should be accessible to all, which is why she feels PLoS is the perfect organisation to work within. Lindsay was born in Cambridge and possesses an encyclopaedic knowledge of Cambridge pubs and an irrational support for Cambridge United Football Club. Lindsay’s role within PLoS is focused around PLoS ONE and assisting the Managing Editor.
Rebecca Walton
Publications Manager
Rebecca (Bex for short) graduated with a degree in Linguistics from St John's College, Cambridge in 2006, despite spending far too much time playing volleyball and rowing, and she was delighted that the PLoS UK office was only a short walk across the road from her college. She is pleased to have advanced from social science to "real science" and enjoys the fact that PLoS ONE allows her to indulge her interest in both neuroeconomics and charismatic megafauna. In her spare time, Bex enjoys writing (fiction and non-), trying not to forget how to speak French and Italian and wandering the streets of New York City. Her desert island luxury item would be a good espresso maker with a lifetime supply of coffee.
Danny Krueger
Publications Assistant
Danny is from the beautiful but small town of San Luis Obispo, California. He moved to San Francisco in 2001 to attend San Francisco State University. Upon graduating with degrees in English Literature and Theatre Arts, he immediately put his studies to good use bartending in an Irish pub named after Oscar Wilde. Eventually, he thought a more traditional schedule might be nice, so he took a job at UCSF providing administrative and financial support in a women's reproductive health research center. He rather enjoyed learning about public health policy and helping, in a small way, to bring reproductive health care to people that need it the most. Eager to transition into publishing, and having close ties to some pro-PLoS biology students, he thought that PLoS would be a perfect place to combine his interests and experience. He keeps busy most of the year acting throughout the Bay Area in plays or with the sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster, and he even shoots an occasional commercial.
Jennifer Laloup
Publications Assistant
Jen graduated from Colorado State University in 2005 with degrees in Speech Communication and Technical Journalism. Shortly after graduation, she began to work for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS where she assisted their Science Unit. This event initiated Jen's interest in sharing scientific developments with a broader audience. In 2007, she decided to make the move to San Francisco where her internship with Wired Magazine increased her enthusiasm for open-access information. Jen is excited be in San Francisco and at PLoS ONE. In her spare time, she enjoys developing her baking expertise and all things outdoors.
Katie Sabo
Publications Assistant
Originally from Pittsburgh, Katie graduated in 2006 with a degree in history from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Following her matriculation, she spent time traveling, working in construction, dishwashing, and interning at an interaction design firm before packing up two suitcases and moving to Northern California. When she’s not working at PLoS, Katie can be found standing by the stove in her apartment stirring steaming pots of jam, sewing clothing, biking and editing the magazine caterwaulquarterly.com.
Anne Tran
Publications Assistant
Anne is a San Francisco Bay Area native who graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Biology. She originally intended to study genetics, but after spending a year in Vancouver, decided that the world was too interesting to settle down to grad school in a single subject. Instead, she hopes to share the fascinating and multi-faceted world of science with a wider audience, and knows open access publishing is one way to do it. She firmly believes that a free exchange of knowledge is key to scientific progression and innovation. In her spare time, Anne enjoys fantasy and horror fiction, with a dash of chick lit here and there. She also has fun developing half-plausible theories on the molecular and biochemical bases of various superhuman abilities.
Amy Whitcomb
Publications Assistant
Amy moved to California from the East coast four years ago to work on restoration projects with the National Park Service in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. In 2007, she returned to city life to begin a Masters program in ecology at the University of California, Berkeley. As a student of science, Amy felt that the scientific community was often exclusive and elitist in a way that distances the public from appreciating and contributing to a greater understanding of our natural world. For this reason, she supports the mission and efforts of PLoS and open access. When she's not working or writing poems, Amy can be found on local trails or, on Sundays, in her backyard with the SF Chronicle and a gin and tonic.
Jessica Yen
Publications Assistant
Jessica attended UCLA as an English major but spent most of the time treading the delicate dichotomy of life by either exercising at the gym or nom nom noming in the cafeteria. She once ate 33 slices of French toast and 16 fried eggs in one sitting. She has twice woken at dawn to road trip for two hours and stand in line for another two at a second- world class sushi buffet. The location, unfortunately, is secret because she doesn't like the idea of standing behind you in line or having competition at the buffet table. She scoffs at Michael Phelp's supposed monstrosity of appetite and stands ready to challenge him any day, anytime to an eating contest. She was inspired to study Latin by Gandhi, who exemplified the semper ubi sububi sentiment, and hopes one day to confess her many sins to the Pope in Latin. Her other life goal is to become a GlobeTrekker. If given a choice between going to the moon or receiving a lifetime supply of gas, well, the obvious choice would be the latter because freeze dried food and space diapers are not her thing.
Carolyn Baker
Assistant Production Coordinator
Prior to working for PLoS, Carolyn worked in marketing both as a copywriter and production assistant. She realized early on that marketing wasn’t what she wanted to do, so she switched paths and got into publishing. She graduated with a BA in Literature from UCSC in 2007 and is continuing her education with language and writing courses at a local college. In her free time, she enjoys writing, painting, doing crafts, baking, making bad music and playing video games. She hopes to continue working in the field of publishing and to have her own work published sometime in the near future.
Tessa Brunton
Assistant Production Coordinator
Tessa graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in History in 2006. While at school, she wrote for the music desk of her school newspaper and for weeklies such as the Santa Cruz Metro and the North Bay Bohemian, during which time she interviewed countless musicians and covered quirky local stories. After she graduated from college Tessa really cut her teeth as an editorial intern at Bitch Magazine, a feminist publication where she worked elbow deep in feminist theory and pop culture analysis.
Tessa loves to travel and spent her Junior year of college living in the heart of beautiful, rainy Galway, Ireland. In her spare time, Tessa draws her own comics, often in the company of her wee pet mice. She is thrilled to be participating in such a groundbreaking organization and feels passionately about the mission of PLoS (not only because her coworkers taught her how to play Speed Scrabble).
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