In this episode, I talk with Stuart Cantrill, who's the current Chief Editor of Nature Chemistry. Before joining the Nature Publishing Group, Stuart was a Research Associate at UCLA and prior to that, obtained a PhD under the tutelage of Prof. Fraser Stoddart at the University of Birmingham and UCLA, and completed a postdoc with Prof. Bob Grubbs' group at Caltech. 

As a chemist, Stuart actively researched in supra supramolecular chemistry, self-assembly processes, and interlocked molecules. We converse about his serendipitous journey in science and academia; working with two terrific mentors, both of whom would go on to win a Nobel Prize for their pioneering research; how no one wants to be an editor and how his own journey to be one came to be; prescient thoughts on scientific publishing; the importance of funding blue-sky research; changes he'd like to retain in the post-pandemic world; and many more things!!