Author: Roli Roberts

About Roli Roberts

Brought up in Zambia, where he was home-schooled in the remote town of Mulobezi, Roli returned to the UK at the age of 11. He studied biochemistry at Oxford and did his PhD on the genetics of muscular dystrophy at Guy’s Hospital, London. After a post-doctoral fellowship in Boston he returned to the UK as lecturer and then senior lecturer at King’s College London. In 2011, after an assessment of what he did and did not like about his academic job, he decided that more satisfaction might be gained from a life in science publishing. He is now an associate editor at PLOS Biology, whose combination of breadth of topic and open access ethic seemed particularly attractive.