Magdalena Skipper
Skipper speaking at Congreso Futuro in 2019
Alma mater	University of Nottingham (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD)[1]
Scientific career
Institutions	Nature Springer Nature Laboratory of Molecular Biology University of Cambridge Imperial Cancer Research Fund
Thesis	Primary sex determination mechanisms in Caenorhabditis elegans (1998)
Academic advisors	Jonathan Hodgkin

Magdalena Skipper is a Britishgeneticist andeditor-in-chief of the journalNature.^[2] She previously served as an editor ofNature Reviews Genetics^[3][4] and theopen access journalNature Communications.

Skipper obtained a bachelor's degree in genetics at theUniversity of Nottingham.^[5][6] She completed her PhD in 1998 at theUniversity of Cambridge, where she worked inJonathan Hodgkin's lab investigatingsex-determination systems in the nematode wormCaenorhabditis elegans.^[1][7] She is a member ofCorpus Christi College, Cambridge.^[8]

After completing her PhD she joined theMedical Research Council (MRC)Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at theUniversity of Cambridge.^[9][7] She briefly worked as apostdoctoralfellow at theImperial Cancer Research Fund, working on thenotch signaling pathway ofzebrafish in gut development.^[7][10]

Skipper joinedNature in 2001 as an associate editor forNature Reviews Genetics.^[7] During her editorship she interviewed several high-profile scientists includingAnne McLaren,^[11]Mario Capecchi^[12] andOliver Smithies.^[13] In 2002 she was appointed chief editor ofNature Reviews Genetics, and was promoted to associate publisher in 2008.^[14][15] She serves on the advisory board of the Centre for Personalised Medicine at theUniversity of Oxford.^[16] Skipper worked briefly as Director for Scientific Communications at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences in Seattle.^[5][8]

In 2018 she worked withNature andEstée Lauder Companies to launch a global award for women in science.^[17][18] She became the first woman editor-in-chief ofNature in its 150-year history in May 2018, when she succeededPhilip Campbell.^[19][20][21] She has stated that she intends to ensure that science isreproducible and robust, as well as doing more to support early-career researchers.^[19]

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