Hélène Hodak holds a PhD in molecular microbiology from the Institut Pasteur in Lille, France. She pursued her postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University before joining Elsevier in 2013 as a scientific editor for the Journal of Molecular Biology. She then moved to an editorial role in the molecular biology portfolio of journals where she continued to work on and expand initiatives focused on training and promoting early career researchers such as VolunPeers, JMB Career Advancement Initiative opens in new tab/window, and CBP Featured Early Career Researchers opens in new tab/window.