Richard White

Richard White is the Editorial Director of a group of Open Access journals including Scientific Reports, a multidisciplinary, inclusive journal that publishes over 20,000 Articles per year. He was Chief Editor of the journal until 2021 and oversaw a period of rapid growth whilst ensuring editorial quality was maintained.

Richard joined Nature Publishing Group in 2009 as one of the launch editors of Nature Communications before taking over the editorial leadership of Scientific Reports in 2013. He has a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Leicester and worked as a researcher at the Australian National University.