Seminar: Inside Nature Physics & How to write a great paper

MCQST and IMPRS-QST are excited to offer a talk and seminar on an important and highly relevant topic: writing and publishing great papers. Dr. David Abergel from Nature Physics will give a talk on the publishing process and lead a seminar on how to write outstanding papers.

Agenda

2:00pm | Talk: Inside Nature Physics
(Open to all IMPRS and MCQST members, PhD students, and postdocs)

3:00pm | Networking, Coffee & Snacks

3:30pm | Seminar: How to Write a Great Paper
(Open to all PhD students of IMPRS and MCQST)

Please note that on the same day, the IMPRS-QST members meeting takes place after the seminar, and we use the same form for both events.

Inside Nature Physics

What happens to your paper after you submit it to a journal is not always clear from the outside, but it’s helpful for authors to understand the editorial process so that they can navigate it smoothly. In this talk, we will unpack this process and explain how editors make their decisions. We will introduce Nature Physics (and other journals in the Nature Portfolio) and describe how we see our role in the scientific community and what we are trying to achieve. Building on that, we will discuss how we select papers for peer review based on the likely breadth of interest in the results that they contain, and how we interpret the information in peer review reports in terms of technical and editorial concerns. We'll also discuss some techniques for writing papers and leave plenty of time for questions and discussion.

How to write a great paper

Writing a paper that communicates your results to the widest possible audience can be hard. We will share some tips on how to do this, and do some practical exercises. We’ll also leave plenty of time for questions and discussion.

About Dr. David Abergel

Before joining Nature Physics in 2017, David carried out theoretical research on graphene and other two-dimensional materials, and topological materials. He completed a Ph.D at Lancaster University in 2007, and then did post-doctoral work at the University of Manitoba (Canada) and the University of Maryland (USA) before undertaking an Assistant Professorship at Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm (Sweden). David because Chief Editor in 2022 and is based in our Berlin office.