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Job Title: (Senior) Associate Editor (m/f/d), Nature Human Behaviour

Location: London or Berlin

Closing date: February 2nd 2021

Nature Human Behaviour seeks a Locum Associate or Senior Editor with a background in the quantitative social sciences, epidemiology/public health or genetics to join its editorial team for a period of 12 months. 

Launched in January 2017, Nature Human Behaviour publishes research of outstanding significance into any aspect of individual or collective human behaviour. The journal has a strong multidisciplinary identity, encompassing research across the social, biological, health, and physical sciences.