About the Editors
Like the other Nature titles, Nature Methods has no external editorial board. Instead, all editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of professional editors, with relevant research and editorial backgrounds.
Chief Editor: Allison Doerr, PhD, Springer Nature, United States of America ORCiD
Allison Doerr began conducting research in polymer chemistry as an undergraduate at Vassar College. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University working in George McLendon's laboratory, where she studied de novo protein receptor design and investigated protein-ligand interactions using NMR spectroscopy. She covers biochemistry and chemical biology content for the journal, including proteomics, metabolomics and structural biology. Allison joined Nature Methods in February 2005 and has been Chief Editor since November 2018.
Senior Editor: Nina Vogt, PhD, Springer Nature, United States of America ORCiD
Nina Vogt began her research career as an undergraduate at Heidelberg University working with yeast. She conducted her Ph.D. research at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, where she studied mRNA localization in Drosophila with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. She then moved on to a postdoc in Claude Desplan's laboratory at New York University where she established a behavioral assay for color vision in Drosophila. She handles the neuroscience, model organism, mechanobiology and stem cell content for the journal. Nina joined Nature Methods in April 2014.
Senior Editor: Lin Tang, PhD, Springer Nature, China ORCiD
Lin Tang obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Biology at the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, studying transcriptome evolution. He was an Associate Editor for Nature Communications beginning in November 2016, and joined Nature Methods as a Senior Editor in September 2019. He handles genomics and computational methods for the journal.
Senior Editor: Arunima Singh, PhD, Springer Nature, United States of America ORCiD
Arunima Singh studied biochemistry as an undergraduate, but a keen interest in programming led her to pursue a master's degree in bioinformatics at the University of Pune, India. She went on to obtain her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, USA, where she used molecular modeling to analyze protein-carbohydrate interactions and developed a web tool for generating 3D structures of glycosaminoglycans, while working with Robert Woods. She did postdoctoral research at New York University on computational characterization of protein-protein interfaces and peptide mimetic-based inhibitor design. She handles computational biology, glycobiology and structural biology content for the journal. Arunima joined Nature Methods in June 2019.
Senior Editor: Madhura Mukhopadhyay, PhD, Springer Nature, United States of America ORCiD
Madhura Mukhopadhyay studied microbiology as an undergraduate at Mount Carmel College in Bangalore, India, and human biology in a Master’s program at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, where she analyzed CD4+ T cell responses generated by a candidate HIV vaccine with Lisa Chakrabarti. Following her Ph.D., Madhura conducted postdoctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Pennsylvania with a strong focus on deconvoluting peripheral CD4+ T cell and follicular helper T cell responses against HPV-related cancers and HIV. Madhura joined Nature Methods in March 2020.
Senior Editor: Michelle Korda, PhD, Springer Nature, United Kingdom
Michelle Korda managed advanced therapy clinical trials at University College London (UCL) and ran a stratified medicine consortium and clinical trial for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis at Queen Mary University of London. Her expertise encompasses advanced-therapy clinical trials and in in vivo and in vitro models for bone-defect healing. Michelle obtained a PhD in biomedical engineering from UCL in 2007, focusing on stem cells’ regenerative capabilities around revision hip implants. Michelle started her editorial career at Nature Biomedical Engineering as part of its launching team in May 2016. In her role, she managed a broad spectrum of submissions, with a focus on medical devices and tissue engineering. She brings a wealth of experience and an understanding of cutting-edge biomedical research to her role. Michelle joined the Research Cross-Journal Editorial team in January 2024.
Associate Editor: Aparna Anantharaman, PhD, Springer Nature, United States of America ORCiD
Aparna Anantharaman earned her Ph.D. in Bioscience at the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India, where she de novo designed, synthesized, and tested antibiotic peptides against pathogenic bacteria. She later moved to the US, where she held multiple postdoctoral positions in gene regulation and RNA biology. She transitioned to research publishing in 2023, first as Managing Editor and then as Publisher for the npj Series. Aparna joined Nature Methods and the Nature Research Cross-Journal team in September 2025.
aparna.anantharaman@us.nature.com
Associate Editor: Fariha Rahman, PhD, Springer Nature, United States of America ORCiD
Fariha Rahman obtained an undergraduate degree in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California-Berkeley and worked on selective enzymatically-triggered protein release from hydrogels as an M.S. thesis student in Cole DeForest's laboratory at the University of Washington. With a continued interest in methods development for the life sciences, she then completed a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. on multiplexed super-resolution fluorescence microscopy of gene regulation-related targets in Wesley Legant's group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She handles optical imaging methods, probes and related computational approaches for the journal. Fariha joined Nature Methods in December 2025.
Technology Editor, news and features: Vivien Marx, MA, Springer Nature, United States of America
Vivien Marx is a multi-platform journalist who covers many areas of science and technology development. She joined Nature Methods in 2012. Her work has appeared in Nature, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods and elsewhere including The Economist, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal Europe, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, ZDF/arte, Science, The Lancet, Chemical & Engineering News, Newsweek/Daily Beast and New Scientist. She speaks fluent French and German. She studied biology and computing and holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow. Among her awards are the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism and a Knight Foundation science journalism fellowship at MIT.
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