Francesca Cesari is the Chief Biological, Clinical and Social Sciences Editor at Nature, overseeing editorial content and management of these research sections of Nature. She has a master with honours in Molecular Biology from University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy, and obtained her Ph.D. from the Institute of Cell Biology in Tübingen, Germany, where she also did post-doctoral work. She completed further post-doctoral work at The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, UK. Dr. Cesari started her editorial career as the Locum Stem Cell and Development Editor at Nature in 2007. She was then a Senior Editor of Nature Reviews Molecular Biology and briefly worked at Nature Cell Biology as a Senior Editor before moving back to Nature permanently in 2010. She was appointed Chief Biological Sciences Editor of Nature in 2014 and her role has recently expanded to include clinical and social sciences, leading a team of 23 manuscript editors.
