Our Team of PhD Editors & Scientific Consultants
XpertScientific is built by scientists for scientists—100% scientist-owned and operated. Every editor and consultant on our core team holds a PhD and/or MD and brings many years of research, publishing, and peer-review experience. We combine subject-matter expertise with practical knowledge of journal requirements to help you communicate clearly, meet author expectations, and publish with confidence.
Some of our clients
Alongside the permanent team below, we collaborate with a trusted network of scientific editors, translators, and consultants across numerous disciplines to match each project to the right expert. What this means for you:
- Subject-matched editing expertise. Your manuscript is edited by an expert familiar with the terminology, conventions, and publication standards of your field.
- Scientific translation by bilingual specialists. For authors writing in Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, or other supported languages, our translators help turn scientific content into clear, publication-ready English while preserving technical meaning.
- Consulting by experienced academics. Our consultants have worked across medical, life, natural, environmental, engineering, and social sciences, supporting projects involving statistics, modelling, figures, reports, reviewer responses, grant proposals, and science communication.
- Human judgement in the age of AI. AI-generated or AI-assisted text can appear fluent while containing vague claims, hallucinated details, logical gaps, inconsistent terminology, or unsupported conclusions. Our experts check accuracy, coherence, caution, and publication readiness.
- Transparent, collaborative support. We use tracked changes, margin notes, clear explanations, and direct communication to help you understand our edits, decisions, and recommendations.
For highly specialised projects, we also draw on trusted external collaborators we know personally from our research careers.
XpertScientific supports the full publication journey: editing and proofreading, formatting to author guidelines, article submission, peer-review support, and—when required—reformatting for a new journal. We apply the same academic rigour to scientific consulting, including study design, statistical analysis, modelling, visualisation, and dissemination.
We are committed to prompt, professional service and to empowering first-time authors through free resources and guidance. Our services have been recommended by both publishers and professional societies.
Meet the people behind XpertScientific
Below are our permanent editors and scientific consultants. For highly specialised projects, we complement this core team with trusted domain experts from our wider academic network.
Dr Oliver Ross (Principal Scientist & Founder of XpertScientific)
- MSc in physics
- PhD in physical oceanography/ biological-physical interactions (NOCS/Univ. Southampton)
- Subject areas: aquatic sciences, earth sciences, oceanography, marine biology, marine optics, atmospheric science, biogeochemistry, climatology, geophysics, global change, limnology, meteorology
- Regular reviewer for several journals including:
- Aquatic Biology
- Continental Shelf Research
- Deep-Sea Research
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Global Change Biology
- Harmful Algae
- Hydrobiologia
- ICES J Marine Science
- J Geophysical Research
- J Marine Systems
- J Plankton Research
- Limnology & Oceanography
- L&O: Fluids and Environments
- Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Progress in Oceanography
- Reviewer for UK NERC and US NSF research grant proposals
- Expert evaluator & rapporteur for EU HORIZON-MISS, -CL5, and MSCA proposals.
- Has obtained two Marie Curie fellowships and several research grants
- Former member of the GEOHAB core research project "HABs in stratified systems"
- Recent projects include:
- Analyses of oceanographic data (ship based, gliders, floats, AUVs, moorings, remote sensing, time series, spatial analyses, etc.)
- Lagrangian modelling of phytoplankton
- 1D vertical turbulence modelling of lakes, estuaries and shelf seas
- Modelling of parasite infectivity on dinoflagellates
- Modelling the DMS cycle
- 3D modelling of shelf seas and coastal embayments
- HAB modelling
Dr Gabriela Aguileta (Senior Scientist & Managing Editor - Life & Medical Sciences)
- MSc in biology
- PhD in genomics/bioinformatics (University College London)
- Author of several popular science books
- Subject areas: life sciences, genomics, bioinformatics, biology, evolutionary biology, agricultural science, plant science
- Regular reviewer for several journals including:
- Bioinformatics
- BMC Evolutionary Biology
- Evolution
- Genetica
- Genome Biology and Evolution
- Journal of Evolutionary Biology
- Journal of Molecular Evolution
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution
- Molecular Biology and Evolution
- Molecular Ecology
- PLoS One
- PLoS Genetics
- Expert reviewer and rapporteur for EU Horizon MSCA proposals.
- Has obtained one Marie Curie fellowship and several research grants
- Recent projects include:
- Phylogenetic and Phylogenomic analysis: phylogeny reconstruction, including large scale and genomic datasets. Prediction of optimal phylogenetic markers and barcoding. Molecular dating and ancestral state reconstruction.
- Development of Phylo-MCOA: a method based on multiple co-inertia analysis for the identification of outlier genes and species in phylogenomic studies.
- Functional genomics: gene family expansion and functional specialisation analysis; ortholog and paralog prediction.
- Structural genomics: analysis of the evolution of the genomic content (e.g., transposable elements, repeats, genes) and organisation (e.g., study of gene and genomic region rearrangements).
- Ecological genomics: identification of rapidly-evolving genes involved in fungal pathogenicity, host specialisation and speciation processes; hybridisation analysis; sexual chromosome evolution in fungi.
Dr Ildem Akerman (Senior Scientist)
- MSc in biochemistry
- PhD in molecular biology (Univ. Oxford)
- Member of the Beta Cell Biology consortium
- Subject areas: biochemistry, computational biology, genetics, microarray analysis, molecular biology
Dr Justin Cates
- BSc in biology
- MD plus PhD in cell-, developmental-, and molecular biology (Tufts U)
- Professor of Pathology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee, USA
- Experienced editor and member of several editorial boards with >20y clinical and research experience in anatomic pathology and clinical oncology
- Subject areas: biostatistics, clinical studies, evidence-based medicine, medical sciences, oncology, outcome studies, pathology
Dr Maria Martínez García
- MD plus PhD in medical oncology focused on predictive molecular markers of response in patients with advanced solid tumors treated with MEK and RAF inhibitors in phase I studies (UB)
- Associate Professor of Oncology at UPF, Barcelona, Spain
- Head of the Neuro Oncology section and Clinical Research Unit of the Medical Oncology service at Hospital del Mar (Barcelona, Spain), appointed President of the Spanish Neuro-oncology Research Group (GEINO)
- Subject areas: neuro-oncology, molecular therapies, phase I clinical trials, innovative drugs, translational research in gliomas and breast cancer
Dr Joseph Caruso
- BSc in genetics
- MD plus PhD in experimental medicine focused on cancer biology (crosstalk between estrogen receptor and dioxin receptor signaling pathways) (McGill U)
- Former Research Assistant Professor at Wayne State University (MI, USA) and Associate Director of the KCI Proteomics Facility Core
- Experienced editor and author of peer-reviewed research articles
- Subject areas: apoptosis / autophagy / cell death, bioinformatics, cancer biology, cell signalling, environmental health, protein expression, processing & modification, proteomics / mass spectrometry, toxicology
Helena Kruyer
- BSc in genetics (Queen Mary College, University London, UK)
- 10+ years of academic research experience a various hospitals and research centres
- 36 years of experience as professional editor and translator of medical texts. Author/co-author of two dozen peer-reviewed research articles
- Subject areas: diagnostics, epidemiology, genetics, transplantation medicine, oncology, psychology, public health, rare diseases, general medicine, micro-organisms
Dr Artyom Zinchenko (Senior Scientist)
- Master in Cognitive Neuroscience from LMU Munich
- PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences focused on emotions and cognitive conflict processing.
- Faculty member at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, where his research interests include cognition-emotion interaction and long-term memory guided attention during visual search.
- Experienced editor and author of peer-reviewed research articles in high-impact journals
- Subject areas: cognitive neuroscience / psychology / emotion / behaviour / biostatistics
Dr Diane Gal
- MSc in public health (London SHTM)
- PhD in cardiovascular health (KU Leuven)
- Former project manager at FIP & WHO and lecturer at U Portsmouth
- Subject areas: bibliometrics, biomarkers, cardiovascular disease, non-communicable diseases, environment and health, epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, infectious disease, pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical sciences, physical activity and health, public health, scientometrics
Dr Stephanie Gardham
- BSc hons in biology (U Nottingham)
- MSc in aquatic resource management (King's College London)
- PhD in environmental science (ecotoxicology) (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
- Intermediate Member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders
- Subject areas: ecotoxicology, risk assessment, pollution and remediation, aquatic ecology, water quality, environmental microbiology and environmental management, climate modelling, conservation biology, marine ecology, plant ecology, plant pathology, and general ecology and biology
Dr Tod van Gunten (Senior Scientist)
- MA in humanities & social thought (NYU)
- PhD in sociology (U Wisconsin-Madison)
- Subject areas: economic and political sociology, sociological theory, social networks, sociology of knowledge, globalization, Latin America and Southern Europe, human/ urban geography
Dr Jaime Huerta Cepas (Senior Scientist)
- MSc in biology
- PhD in genomics (UCM)
- Subject areas: phylogenomics, orthology, gene duplication, metagenomics, databases, numerical tool development for bioinformatics
Dr Malcolm Keeping
- BSc hons in zoology/entomology
- PhD in entomology (U. Witwatersrand)
- National Research Foundation (South Africa) rated researcher, grant holder and peer reviewer
- Registered natural scientist - South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions
- Subject areas: agriculture, integrated pest management, plant science, plant pathology, host plant resistance, silicon in plants and soils, insect behaviour and chemical ecology, behavioural ecology, entomology, soil science
Dr Silvija Kipson (Senior Scientist)
- MSc in biology/ecology
- MSc in environmental science and policy
- PhD in marine biology (Univ. Zagreb)
- Appointed national coral expert in Croatia
- Subject areas: aquatic ecosystems, biodiversity, marine biology, marine ecology, climate change, conservation
Dr Joel Montane
- MSc in biochemistry and molecular biology
- PhD in gene therapy and diabetes (UAB)
- Several years of experience as science editor associated with the Centre of Excellence for Medicine
- Subject areas: diabetes, immunology, transplantation, infection diseases, biochemistry, gene therapy, molecular biology, genetics, clinical studies
Dr Charlotte Pierrat
- MSc in geography
- PhD in geography (Sorbonne)
- Subject areas: biogeography, epidemiology, environmental management, environmental policy, physical/urban/human geography, remote sensing, GIS
Dr Steve Sims
- BSc in entomology
- PhD in entomology (UC Davis)
- Affil. Prof. Auburn University, Alabama, USA
- Experienced editor with >30 years research experience as entomologist/toxicologist with focus on agronomy, pest control, and resistance management
- Subject areas: entomology, toxicology, botany, taxonomy, geology, conservation, habitat remediation
Dr Colin Smith (Scientist)
- BSc hons in geology
- PhD in geosciences/petrology (Imperial College)
- Subject areas: geodesy, geology, sedimentology, petrology, palaeontology, physical geography
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Ethics & Conflicts of Interest
We uphold strict confidentiality and avoid conflicts of interest. Some of our team members regularly review manuscripts for leading journals and serve as evaluators or rapporteurs for grant applications submitted to the EU and other international funding agencies. We will therefore decline or recuse ourselves from any peer-review, evaluation, or rapporteur role involving a manuscript or proposal that has been edited, translated, or otherwise supported by XpertScientific. We do not seek to influence editorial or funding decisions, and authors retain full ownership of and responsibility for the scientific content.
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