Editors
Our in-house editors are PhD-level scientists with research experience. All in-house editors work full-time for the journal to oversee the review process, handle manuscripts as primary editors, liaise with our Editorial Board Members and enforce journal policy. Editors also engage in other activities on behalf of the journal, such as attending and organizing conferences and meeting with scientists at their institutions.
In-house editors work closely with our Editorial Board Members to ensure that all manuscripts are subject to the same editorial standards and journal policies.
Chief Editor | Victoria Richards, PhD, Springer Nature, UK
Victoria joined Communications Chemistry in September 2019. She obtained her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2013, with research experience in the fields of metal-organic frameworks, surface self-assembly, molecular magnetism and main group chemistry. Victoria began her editorial career working on ChemComm and Chemical Science at the Royal Society of Chemistry, before moving to Nature Communications in 2016, where she managed the inorganic, materials and physical chemistry team. Victoria is based in the London office.
victoria.richards [at] nature.com
Senior Editor | Huijuan Guo, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany
Huijuan joined Communications Chemistry in April 2022. She received her Masters degree from the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science, studying fungal natural product chemistry. She then moved to Germany to receive her PhD in Analytic Chemistry from the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology. Subsequently, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, exploring broader aspects of modern genomics/metabolomics/proteomics to investigate natural product biosynthesis as well as medicinal chemistry. Huijuan is based in the Berlin office.
huijuan.guo [at] nature.com
Associate Editor | Karen Mudryk, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany
Karen joined Communications Chemistry in December 2024. She carried out her PhD at Freie University Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, studying the correlation between electronic structure and thermodynamics in electrochemical solutes using time-resolved and synchrotron-based photoelectron spectroscopy. Afterwards she did postdoctoral work at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, applying the technique to aqueous biomolecules. Before joining Communications Chemistry, she was a locum editor at Nature Physics, where she handled papers in biophysics and active matter. Karen is based in the Berlin office.
karendenise.mudryk [at] nature.com
