Elise was the editor of TWS/MEW for 9 years up to 2013. After obtaining a bachelors in zoology, she qualified as a solicitor and practiced in London for 10 years. She is currently a freelance editor and publications consultant in biomedical sciences in Vienna. Before becoming freelance she worked in Baxter’s R&D department for 12 years helping authors prepare manuscripts for submission to journals. She has also worked as a managing editor for the leading European diabetes journal, Diabetologia, and helped to set up a medical journal on men’s health published by Elsevier. She has been a member of the editorial board of EASE’s European Science Editor journal since 2003 and a member of COPE and WAME. Elise has a keen interest in biomedical journal policies, publication ethics and eloquence in scientific writing, and enjoys giving workshops and writing articles/book chapters on these topics
