Michaela Torkar

Dr Michaela Torkar is Editorial Director of F1000Research, an Open Science publishing platform for life scientists and medical researchers that operates a fully transparent post-publication peer-review model and focuses on data sharing with the aim to facilitate reproducibility. After completing her PhD in immunogenetics at the University of Cambridge, Michaela started her publishing career at BioMed Central as a member of the Genome Biology editorial team; eventually becoming the Editor of Genome Biology and later BioMed Central’s Editorial Director, overseeing the editorial processes of BioMed Central’s rapidly growing portfolio of biology and medical journals and the development of several journals, including BMC Biology and Biology Direct, which have been experimenting with different peer review models. Michaela joined F1000 Research at the start of 2014 – one year after its formal launch.