Skills: on-screen copy-editing, proofreading, correcting page proofs, editing non-native English, marking up (templates and tagging, Word and XML), abstracting, project management
Media: journals, books (single and multi-author), newsletters
Equipment and software: Mac and PC computers; colour laser 600dpi printer; scanner, graphics tablet; word processing, text processing, spreadsheet processing, XML/XSLTproc tools, InDesign CS4 (Mac), Acrobat Pro 8
Qualifications and awards: DPhil Biology, PGCE Biology and Maths, BSc Microbiology
Recent training: On-screen Editing 2 (SfEP) 2010, Efficient Copy-editing (SfEP) 2009, Copy-editing by Distance Learning (PTC) 2009, Proofreading by Distance Learning (PTC) 2006
Experience: full-time freelance since 2005; published researcher
Recent clients: Oxford University Press, Sage Journals, Society for General Microbiology, Reproductive BioMedicine Online, FakPhoto, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, LexisNexis
Subjects: medicine/life sciences (academic/research), bacteriology), biology (molecular/cell, popular, reproduction treatments), biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, genetics (microbial, molecular), microbiology
Having completed a doctorate, I am comfortable working with academic papers and books. I have been working as a full-time editor for 6 years and so I have lots of experience in pre-press preparation of texts.