Editor-in-Chief, Nature

Sir Philip Campbell is Editor-in-Chief of Nature and of Nature Research. His areas of responsibility include the editorial content of Nature, and assuring the long-term quality of all Nature publications. He is based in London.  He has a BSc in aeronautical engineering, an MSc in astrophysics and a PhD and postdoctoral research in upper atmospheric physics. Following his research, he became the Physical Sciences Editor of Nature and then, in 1988, the founding editor of Physics World, the international magazine of the UK Institute of Physics. He returned to Nature to take on his current role in 1995.