Fabio Pulizzi
Title: Nature Water: a journal for all water-related research
First and last name: Fabio Pulizzi
Affiliation: Nature Water
Short Biography:
Fabio Pulizzi joined Nature Water as a Chief Editor in January 2022, after 16 years working at Nature research journals. He joined Nature Materials as an associate editor in January 2006 and handled manuscripts in materials physics. In July 2012, he became the Chief Editor of Nature Nanotechnology. During the almost 10 years spent at the journal, he developed an interest for environmental issues and extended the scope of the journal to cover environmental nanotechnology, nanotechnology applications in clean water and sustainable agriculture, as well as regulations of engineered nanomaterials. In 2020 he worked on the project for the launch of Nature Water and he was then appointed to lead the editorial team. Fabio has a degree in physics from the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy, and a PhD in Physics from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Between 2002 and 2006 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham and at the University of Sheffield, in the United Kingdom. Fabio is based in London, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Nature Water aims to cover all aspects related to the interaction between water and society. Broadly, the journal includes a wide range of topics that include aspects of natural sciences (primarily earth and environmental science) engineering (including environmental, civil, chemical and materials) and social sciences (economy, human geography and sociology among others), with several topics presenting aspects of more than one area. In my presentation, I will discuss my vision of the journal, placing in the context of other Nature publications and other journals in the water sphere. I shall discuss in more details the topics we’d be covering and what we would look for in submitted manuscript. In particular, I shall talk about the way in which we consider advanced in applications of 2D materials in the water sector as an example of topics that we consider.
Figure 1: Cover of the launch issue of Nature Water, January