What to expect from the Certified Peer Reviewer Course?

Bahar is peer review innovation lead at Elsevier and oversees the peer review strategy and innovation for Elsevier journals. She is the chair of the recently launched Peer Review Workbench, a unique dataset allowing evidence-based research in peer review. She received her PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Amsterdam and moved to the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light to pursue her academic career as a postdoc. She joined Elsevier in 2013 as a managing editor and since then has studied peer review as a scientific research topic. Bahar is vice president of the European Association of Science Editors, and co-chair of NISO's Inclusion, Equity, Diversity, and Accessibility committee.

Christopher Tancock has worked in STM publishing for the past 16 years. He joined Elsevier in 2006 where he initially worked on social science book projects before moving to journals. He has managed various portfolios as a journal publisher including linguistics, history, education, sociology and political science. He is now Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier's Editors', Authors' and Reviewers' Updates and works on related communications projects. Chris has degrees in European Studies and Linguistics from Royal Holloway and the University of Oxford respectively and is based in the Oxford office. In his spare time, he is a Community First Responder with the South Central Ambulance Service. Chris is founder of Pint of Life, an initiative which delivers free life-saving skills into the heart of his local community