| Philip Campbell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1951 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Fields | Physics, Aeronautical engineering |
| Institutions | Nature Publishing Group |
| Alma mater | University of Bristol, University of Leicester |
| Known for | Editor-in-Chief of Nature |
Philip Campbell (born 1951) is the editor-in-chief of the science journal, Nature, and of the Nature Publishing Group.[1]
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Campbell graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in aeronautical engineering in 1972.[2] He then gained a Master of Science (MSc) in astrophysics at Queen Mary College, University of London[3] before doing his PhD in upper atmospheric physics at the University of Leicester. His doctoral and postdoctoral research was on the physics of the ionized upper atmosphere and effects on radio propagation, using the latter as a probe of the lower ionosphere.[4]
Born in 1951, Campbell began working at Nature in 1979 and was appointed physical sciences editor in 1982. After leaving the journal in 1988 to start the publication Physics World, the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics, he returned to Nature as Editor-in-Chief in 1995.[5][6] He heads a team of about 90 editorial staff around the world.[7] He takes direct editorial responsibility for the content of Nature's editorials, writing some of them. He is the seventh editor-in-chief since the journal was launched in 1869.[8] His role is to ensure that the quality and integrity appropriate to the Nature name are maintained, and that appropriate individuals are appointed as chief editors. He sits on the executive board of Nature's parent company, Nature Publishing Group.
Campbell has worked on issues relating to science and its impacts in society with the Office of Science and Innovation in the UK, the European Commission and the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He is also a trustee of the charity Cancer Research UK and the chairman of the charity's Public Policy Advisory Group.[9] He was a visiting scholar at Rockefeller University in spring 2008.[10]
Campbell was appointed a member of an independent panel established in February 2010 by the University of East Anglia to investigate the controversy surrounding the publication of emails sent by staff at the university's Climatic Research Unit (CRU). Due to publicity about a 2009 interview with Chinese State Radio[11] during which he expressed support for the CRU scientists, he resigned just hours after the panel was launched.[12]
Campbell is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (elected in 1979), and of the Institute of Physics (elected in 1995). In 1999 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Leicester,[13] an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Bristol in 2008, and an honorary fellowship of Queen Mary, University of London, in 2009.[3][14] He was also elected an Associate of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
In January 2010 he was a guest on Private Passions, the biographical music discussion programme on BBC Radio 3.[15]
| Preceded by John Maddox |
Editor in Chief of Nature 1995–present |
Incumbent |