Editors
Our in-house editors are PhD-level scientists with research experience. All in-house editors work full-time for the journal to oversee the review process, handle manuscripts as primary editors, liaise with our Editorial Board Members and enforce journal policy. Editors also engage in other activities on behalf of the journal, such as attending and organizing conferences and meeting with scientists at their institutions.
In-house editors work closely with our Editorial Board Members to ensure that all manuscripts are subject to the same editorial standards and journal policies.
Chief Editor | Victoria Richards, PhD, Springer Nature, UK
Victoria joined Communications Chemistry in September 2019. She obtained her PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2013, with research experience in the fields of metal-organic frameworks, surface self-assembly, molecular magnetism and main group chemistry. Victoria began her editorial career working on ChemComm and Chemical Science at the Royal Society of Chemistry, before moving to Nature Communications in 2016, where she managed the inorganic, materials and physical chemistry team. Victoria is based in the London office.
victoria.richards [at] nature.com
Senior Editor | Karen Mudryk, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany
Karen joined Communications Chemistry in December 2024. She carried out her PhD at Freie University Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, studying the correlation between electronic structure and thermodynamics in electrochemical solutes using time-resolved and synchrotron-based photoelectron spectroscopy. Afterwards she did postdoctoral work at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, applying the technique to aqueous biomolecules. Before joining Communications Chemistry, she was a locum editor at Nature Physics, where she handled papers in biophysics and active matter. Karen is based in the Berlin office.
karendenise.mudryk [at] nature.com
Associate Editor | Avijit Ghosh, PhD, Springer Nature, India
Avijit joined Communications Chemistry in May 2026. He earned his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Calcutta, where his research focused on designing and developing Estrogen receptor-targeting molecules for cancer therapy and fluorescent probes for bioimaging applications. Avijit further advanced his expertise through postdoctoral research at the Centre for Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, where he worked on the development of nanoparticle-based delivery systems to control metastasis in triple-negative breast cancer models. He subsequently joined the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and later conducted research at Iowa State University on nanoparticle materials as chemical and biological tools for peptide, protein, and drug resistance studies. Before joining Communications Chemistry, Avijit served as a Staff Member and Project Scientist at National University Corporation Tottori University in a joint industry–academia collaboration with AGC Inc.. He is based in the Pune office.
avijit.ghosh [at] springernature.com
