7th MDPI Guest Editor Club 2025
30 July 2025
Welcome Message
Dear Colleagues,
MDPI would like to invite all Guest Editors, as esteemed experts in their respective disciplines, to participate in the 7th MDPI Guest Editor Club. This forum intends to highlight exciting topics in a comprehensive but efficient manner to allow Guest Editors from all over the world to present their experience and discuss their achievements.
The Guest Editor Club will bring together a group of multi-disciplinary Guest Editors from all over the world to present and exchange breakthrough ideas reported in Special Issues. We have, therefore, put together this platform to aid in your interactions with the journal, leading you through the most important aspects of the role and providing information on what you can expect from the process of editing a Special Issue. We are pleased to provide an exciting opportunity for all of our brilliant Guest Editors to propose and develop new approaches, exchange perspectives, and encourage new lines of research.
We will record the lectures, with prior consent from the lecturers, and deposit them in our online database. We will continue to build this database with brief introductions and summaries of topics and open an online discussion group for each GE. We hope that this event is of interest to you, and we welcome you to join us at this forum.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you at the 7th MDPI Guest Editor Club 2025. Please find below an up-to-date outline of the presenters.
Date: 30 July 2025 at 9:00 am CEST | 9:00 pm EDT | 3:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 889 2623 3305
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
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Keynote Speakers
The Process of Designing and Implementing a Conceptually Driving Special Issue
Dr. David F. J. Campbell is Associate Professor for Comparative Political Science at the University of Vienna (https://politikwissenschaft.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/staff/associate-professors/campbell/); the Founding Head of the Center for Higher Education Governance and Transformation at the Department for Higher Education Research, University for Continuing Education Krems in Austria (https://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/university/faculties/education-arts-architecture/departments/higher-education-research.html); and a Quality Enhancement Expert, Quality Researcher and Publication Strategist at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (https://www.dieangewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte-2016/main.jart?rel=en&reserve-mode=active&content-id=1458930944469&Pe-Id=4725). His research focuses on the governance of higher education, referring to and integrating innovation and quality of democracy (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-72529-1). Together with Elias Carayannis, David Campbell developed the theory of Quadruple and Quintuple Helix Innovation Systems (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13132-021-00778-x). For Social Sciences, Dr. Campbell acted as Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Democracy, Politics and Innovation, and Social Integration in the Contemporary World” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/3UV688P8PX). We are also pleased to announce that the 2nd Edition of this Special Issue has now been launched: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/socsci/special_issues/59Z50I5XQ8.
To Be a Guest Editor: Tasks and Pitfalls
Dr. Roberto Teggi was born in Milan in 1958 and at present works as an ENT specialist at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute. He is mainly involved in the treatment of and research into inner ear disorders, particularly vertigo and tinnitus. He has teaching appointments at Vita e Salute University on the medical degree course and the physiotherapy course. He has published 90 papers on inner ear disorders and is a full member of the Barany Society.
From The Dark Universe: The Harbinger of a Major Discovery to Cross-Disciplinary Footprints in Astro-Particle Physics
Dr. Konstantin Zioutas completed his studies and PhD in Physics and Nuclear Physics at the University of Bonn, Germany (1963–1972). Since 1976, he has been affiliated with CERN as a fellow, research associate, and visiting scientist. He served as a lecturer and assistant professor at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1979–2005), and later as a full professor at the University of Patras (2005–2011), where he is now Professor Emeritus. Since 1999, he has been the spokesperson for the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) experiment.
Introduction to Special Issue Management
Ms. Mary O'Sullivan obtained her BSc in Genetics in 2019 and her MSc in Molecular Cell Biology with Bio-innovation in 2020 from University College Cork in Ireland. She started her career in MDPI in January 2023 working for the editorial department for the journal Cancers as an Assistant Editor and following this became a Section Managing Editor. Currently, Mary is now a Journal Relations Specialist based in the UK office in Manchester.
Program
|
Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CEST |
| MDPI Introduction | 9:00am - 9:10am |
| Dr. David Campbell The Process of Designing and Implementing a Conceptually Driving Special Issue |
9.10am - 9:30am |
| Dr. Roberto Teggi To Be a Guest Editor: Tasks and Pitfalls |
9:30am - 9:50am |
| Dr. Konstantin Zioutas From The Dark Universe: The Harbinger of a Major Discovery to Cross-Disciplinary Footprints in Astro-Particle Physics |
9:50 am - 10:10am |
| Ms. Mary O'Sullivan Introduction to Special Issue Management |
10:10am - 10.30am |
| Q&A | 10:30am - 10:55am |
| Closing of Webinar |
10:55am - 11.00am |
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