Dino A Janssen

Hi everyone!

I am currently the acting Editor-In-Chief and would like to take on this position for the rest of the academic year.
My passion beyond my field of research (molecular biology) is to contribute to a reformed academic culture based on Open Science and interdisciplinarity. For that reason, I helped establish this peer-reviewed academic journal back in 2020, setting publishing guidelines and long-term goals which we are now implementing.

Specifically, I want to take The UCL Review online by January 2023 and publish our first issue by the end of the academic year - with submissions from as many academic fields as possible.
Furthermore, I will work on creating special editions, each centred around one of the ‘big issues’ our society is facing (e.g., climate change, global health crises, social injustice). These will accept papers on that topic, however from all subject areas - especially work that is based on interdisciplinary collaboration.

In the long run, this will foster a culture of less pronounced barriers between academic disciplines, allowing us to profit from other people’s expertise and, ultimately, tackle current problems of wide-ranging complexity.