Graham Lees

Graham Vaughan Lees is a publisher and founding editor-in-chief of The Scientific World Journal, which he edited until the summer of 2011. He is the owner of Corpus Alienum Oy, a Finnish publisher.

Education Lees obtained a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge in 1974. Subsequently, he did a postdoc at the "Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Cellulaire" on the CNRS campus in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Career As publisher, Lees worked subsequently for Elsevier (Amsterdam), Raven Press (New York), and Academic Press. Lees was also chair of the Program Committee of the Second European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine which was held in September 2008 in Oslo.