Nature Sustainability Chief Editor Monica Contestabile will present a seminar at IIASA on the sustainability research landscape and the challenges of publishing interdisciplinary work. The session includes an overview of the editorial and peer-review processes at Nature Sustainability, offering insights into how research is prepared for publication.
© Monica Contestabile
Monica Contestabile joined the Nature family in 2011 as a Senior Editor at Nature Climate Change, where she handled original research and review articles across the entire breadth of social sciences, and interdisciplinary articles integrating natural and social science disciplines in the context of climate and global environmental change.
She became the launching Chief Editor of Nature Sustainability in 2016. Monica completed her doctoral studies in environmental and development economics at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy; she then held a visiting professor position at University Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, and subsequently joined the sustainable consumption team at WWF-UK where she gained invaluable experience about the challenges of bridging the gap between research and policy domains. Monica is based in Berlin.
Event hosted by Lisa Palmer, Journalist-in-residence, at IIASA.
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