Chief Editor: Carolina Perdigoto, PhD, Springer Nature, UK
Carolina Perdigoto did her PhD at the Institut Pasteur, in Paris, where she worked on cell fate regulation in intestinal stem cells in Drosophila. As an EMBO postdoctoral fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York, she studied transcription regulation and Polycomb-mediated repression in murine epidermal development and ageing. Carolina started her editorial career at Nature Communications in 2016, before joining Nature Structural & Molecular Biology in May 2021. Carolina is based in the London office.
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ORCID: 0000-0002-5783-7106
Senior Editor: Katarzyna Ciazynska, PhD, Springer Nature, UK
Kat Ciazynska began her studies at King’s College London, where she worked in James Mason’s lab, applying biophysical techniques to investigate interactions of antimicrobial peptides with biological membranes. She carried out her doctoral work in the group of John Briggs at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, working on the structures of vesicular protein coats and viral glycoproteins using cryo-EM and cryo-ET. She joined Nature Structural & Molecular Biology in 2022. Kat is also an advisory editor for npj Drug Discovery. She is based in the London office.
katarzyna.ciazynska@nature.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-9899-2428
Associate Editor: Yue Feng, PhD, Springer Nature, China
Yue Feng obtained her PhD in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto, where she was also affiliated with the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Her doctoral research focused on mitochondrial protease-mediated protein quality control and its impact on mitochondrial function in acute myeloid leukemia. Prior to her graduate studies, she received early training in structural biology and biochemistry at the Structural Genomics Consortium. Yue joined Nature Structural & Molecular Biology in 2025.
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Senior Editor: Sara Osman, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany
Sara Osman joined the International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology, which brought her to Göttingen where she gained her first lab experience during lab rotations in X-ray crystallography, protein biochemistry and NMR spectroscopy. She did her PhD work on the structural biochemistry and cryo-EM of the Mediator complex in Pol II transcription regulation, with Patrick Cramer at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Her interest in gene regulation then led her to study epigenetic silencing of chromatin in yeast with Ann Ehrenhofer-Murray in Berlin. Sara joined Nature Structural & Molecular Biology in 2021.
sara.osman@nature.com
ORCID: 0000-0003-4274-3665
Senior Editor: Dimitris Typas, PhD, Springer Nature, Italy
Dimitris Typas carried out his PhD research with Haico van Attikum and Leon Mullenders at the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, studying how post-translational modifications regulate the DNA damage response. As a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow with Niels Mailand at the NNF-CPR, in Denmark, he investigated how the repressive heterochromatic environment affects the DNA double-strand break response. Finally, he focused on the interplay between atypical ubiquitylation and cellular recycling machineries, such as the proteasome and p97/VCP. Dimitris joined Nature Structural & Molecular Biology in 2022.
dimitrios.typas@nature.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-8737-1319
Consulting Senior Editor: Melina Casadio, PhD, Springer Nature, USA
Melina Casadio (formerly Herman) obtained her PhD in 2012 based on work conducted in Jean-Laurent Casanova’s lab at The Rockefeller University. Melina aimed to characterize the molecular, cellular, and immunological mechanisms underlying severe infection to a common virus, herpes simplex virus-1, in children. During her postdoctoral work, Melina studied glioblastoma multiform development in the laboratory of Viviane Tabar at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Melina joined the Journal of Cell Biology as a Scientific Editor in 2014 before joining Nature Cell Biology in June 2021. Melina joined Nature Structural & Molecular Biology as a Consulting Editor in October 2024. Melina became Locum Chief Editor of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology on January 21st, 2025 to cover during Carolina's parental leave and returned to Nature Cell Biology as Senior Editor and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology as Consulting Senior Editor in September 2025. Melina is based in the New York office.
melina.casadio@us.nature.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2389-2243
Consulting Senior Editor: Eytan Zlotorynski, PhD, Springer Nature, Germany, ORCiD
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