Jermey N.A. Matthews, Ph.D.

Two media businesses built from scratch (both now retired).

Shaping flagship thought leadership for McKinsey's Life Sciences practice — editing and ghostwriting for senior partners across pharma, biotech, medtech, and animal health. Selected published work:

As a freelance developmental editor, I take books from argument to structure to voice — cover to cover, alongside the author.

As senior acquisitions editor at The MIT Press (2016–2023), I built the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics list — signing and shepherding 90+ titles by some of the leading researchers and reporters in STEM. I also helped launch children's publishing with MIT Kids Press and MITeen Press, which sprang from a partnership between Candlewick Press and The MIT Press.

Lead developmental editing

Selected acquisitions — The MIT Press

Nine years as associate editor and books column editor at Physics Today, the flagship magazine of the American Institute of Physics — 140+ bylined articles on STEM education, industrial R&D, and international science. Launched Bookends, the magazine's first books blog, home to Q&As with prominent physicists including future Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger. Selected features:

Full bibliography on Google Scholar.

Before editing science, I did science — seven years in engineering, biochemistry, and biophysics labs, from inventing a novel reaction process for silica-particle synthesis, to fabricating nanofiltration membranes for water purification and biosensor applications, to deducing critical thermodynamic values of actin polymerization under novel experimental conditions.

On publishing, authorship, and getting science into the hands of people who need it.