... editing, writing, translating scientific text
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Avril Arthur-Goettig is a scientific editor, writer and translator, and scientific writing trainer.
She was born in Scotland and graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc in molecular biology. After gaining a PhD in molecular genetics from Sussex University, UK, and an MRC postdoctoral fellowship at Glasgow University, UK, she joined the Gene Center in Munich, Germany, as a joint project leader.
Many years of organizing scientific data, publishing papers, and supervising graduate students led her to establishing freelance scientific writing services in 1996.
She was born in Scotland and graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc in molecular biology. After gaining a PhD in molecular genetics from Sussex University, UK, and an MRC postdoctoral fellowship at Glasgow University, UK, she joined the Gene Center in Munich, Germany, as a joint project leader.
Many years of organizing scientific data, publishing papers, and supervising graduate students led her to establishing freelance scientific writing services in 1996.
Since then she has helped scientists from research institutes all over Germany, biotech/pharmaceutical companies throughout Europe, international non-profit organizations, media, and clinical agencies with scientific texts.
Experience gained, from writing herself, to editing papers, answering referees comments, and translating scientific texts, has provided her with in-depth knowledge about all the different aspects of written scientific communication, particularly the needs of non-English speaking scientists.
She has now transferred these insights into training programs to meet the growing requirements for these soft skills; see Workshops.
Avril Arthur-Goettig is located in Munich, Germany.