JOINScott Edmunds
Scott Edmunds is Editor-in-Chief for GigaScience and an Executive Committee member for Open Data Hong Kong. He has co-founded Citizen Science organisations Bauhinia Genome and CitizenScience.Asia, is on the Board of Directors of the Dryad Digital Repository, and also teaches data management and curation at Hong Kong University.
His academic background includes training in Biochemistry at Imperial College and a PhD on the Molecular Pathology of Ocular Melanoma at the Royal London Hospital.
After postdoctoral positions on Cancer Molecular Pathology at the WHO International Agency for Research in Cancer in Lyon and Institute of Cell and Molecular Sciences in London (Queen Mary) he was senior scientific editor for the BMC Genomics and Bioinformatics journals at BioMed Central before moving in 2010 to Shenzhen/Hong Kong to set up the GigaScience journal and GigaDB database for the BGI (the world’s largest genomic organisation). GigaScience launched in July 2012, and their second journal, GigaByte, has just started publishing it’s first papers.