Andrea Sanchini is a trainer in scientific writing and publishing. In July 2017, he completed his own Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences. Since May 2018, he is a certified writing trainer and coach, having completed a training at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (www.owl.tu-darmstadt.de/weiterbildung/index.de.jsp). He has more than ten years of experience as a researcher in the field of Life Sciences and as such, can fully understand the needs and problems facing scientists and especially Ph.D. candidates. As a scientist, he experienced the challenges of writing and publishing journal articles with limited time and limited funding.

While enrolled in an international Ph.D. graduate school in Berlin, he had the chance to receive formal training in scientific writing and publishing. Andrea has worked in Public Health institutions and universities in Italy, France, Germany, and India. He is fluent in English and German and his native language is Italian.

He is a member of:

• Gesellschaft für Schreibdidaktik und Schreibforschung (Society for Writing Research, schreibdidaktik.de/index.php)
• Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde, Förderer und Ehemaligen der Freien Universität Berlin (Society of Friends, Supporters and Alumni of the Freie Universität Berlin, fu-berlin.de/sites/erg)
• Forschungs- und Transfermangement e.V. (FORTRAMA, Research-and Transfermanagement e.V., https://fortrama.net/)
• European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID, escmid.org)
• European Association of Science Editors (EASE, https://ease.org.uk/)
• Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP, https://www.sspnet.org/)