Anna Sharman PhD arrived at Kew in 2024 to take up the new role of Researcher Development Manager, which involves organising training and professional development for the research, curation and support staff in Kew Science. She started her career as an evolutionary zoologist, with a PhD on gene duplication at the origin of vertebrates and postdoctoral research on zebrafish embryonic development. She then worked as an editor for several scientific journals, and then set up a company training scientists in writing and publishing research papers for journals. She has broad experience of the world of scientific publishing as well as of training and development.
