2026/06/05
by Stefanie Klug
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We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Alfredo Sansone, Executive Publisher at Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Alfredo will provide an overview of his professional journey from academia to scientific publishing, discussing the path that led to these roles, the responsibilities involved, and the key differences between editorial and publishing positions across companies.
- Date: Friday, 18 Sept 2026
- Time: 11:30-13:00 (appr.)
- Location: in-person on North campus
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you would like to attend.
About the speaker:
Alfredo obtained is PhD from the University of Göttingen in 2014 through the GGNB program CNMPB (Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain), followed by a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College London. In 2017, he began his publishing career as an Associate Editor at Nature Communications, where he was responsible for the imaging and bioengineering areas. During his time at Springer Nature, he also worked occasionally as a freelance editor and writer for Nature and Nature Methods.
After a short stint as Editorial Team Lead at a medical education agency, he joined Cell Press as Deputy Editor. In 2022, Alfredo moved into a more strategic role at Elsevier, leading the Life Sciences team within the Content Acquisition department. He is currently an Executive Publisher at Elsevier, managing a portfolio of ten medical journals.
About the sessions:
Our Career Impulse Sessions offer a platform for interactive and informal exchange about career-related topics for PhD students and postdocs in the Life and Natural Sciences. By inviting PhD holders with different career paths, we would like to illustrate the broad range of potential careers for PhD students and postdocs and give inspiration for career choices.
