Sarah has over 20 years of experience within STM editorial and publishing. She was originally an academic researcher before joining the editorial team at Nature Cell Biology in 1999. After 4 years in editorial she moved into the Nature publishing team and was the Publisher for Nature for many years. During her time at Nature Publishing Group (now Springer Nature) Sarah launched Nature Communications, and subsequently launched Scientific Reports. Sarah was also the Chief Publishing Officer at Hindawi during which time she consolidated the portfolio and implemented new Editorial models. Throughout her career, she has focused on creating innovative new products and services aimed at solving key researcher pain points whilst ensuring the academic scientist remains at the heart of any publishing decision. Sarah now runs Sarah Greaves STEM Consulting and is involved in numerous STEM outreach initiatives as well as being a volunteer with InToUniversity and non-executive director of the Royal Society of Chemistry and The Biochemical Society.