Véronique Kiermer is the Executive Editor at PLOS. She is responsible for the editorial and content direction for the seven PLOS journals. Before joining PLOS in 2015, she was Executive Editor and Director of Author and Reviewer Services for Nature Publishing Group. In that capacity she oversaw editorial and research integrity policies. She started her career in publishing as the founding Chief Editor of Nature Methods. Véronique has a PhD in molecular biology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Before moving into publishing, she did postdoctoral work was in the laboratory of Dr Eric Verdin at the Gladstone Institute, University of California, San Francisco, and worked in R&D in the biotechnology industry in the Bay Area.