Speaker:
Dr. Pep Pàmies, Former Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering.
Tittle: Trust, peer review, and impact
Time: 14:00 June 24th, 2025 (Tuesday)
Venue: Conference Room 6, Building No.5
Host: Prof Guangjun Nie and Prof. Jiashu Sun
Abstract:
In this discussion, Pep will convey the role of selective journals in accelerating research, and provide examples of how journals can drive meaningful changes in peer review, steer communities toward sharing protocols, data and code, and help build trust in careful science reporting. He will argue that leading bioengineering journals should showcase the value that they provide to the communities they serve, empower researchers to help them advance discovery and technology for improving human health, and actively guide research communities toward better reporting standards, increased openness, more valuable scientific outputs and stories, and the most promising technological and translational solutions.
Info:
Pep Pàmies founded Nature Biomedical Engineering-a journal from the Nature family that launched in January 2017-and led its editorial team for 9 years. Pep steered Nature Biomedical Engineering to emphasize translational utility over raw novelty, robustness over superficial impressiveness, and the nuanced reporting of findings and their implications. He developed influential review and opinion content, and championed technology for diagnostics, genome editing, cell engineering, drug delivery, single-cell omics and machine learning across a swath of disease areas (most prominently, immuno-oncology, genetic diseases, cardiorespiratory disorders and infectious diseases). Before he launched Nature Biomedical Engineering, Pep was an editor for Nature Materials for more than 5 years. Previously, Pep conducted research in computational soft matter and biophysics at Columbia University's Chemistry Department in New York City, at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, and at the Atomic and Molecular Physics Institute in Amsterdam. Pep obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Rovira i Virgili University in Catalonia, Spain.
