Dr Esther Levy is Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Materials Technologies and Consulting Editor for Wiley’s flagship materials science journal Advanced Materials. She is also Consulting Editor for the micro- and nanoscience journal Small, the premium open-access general science journal Advanced Science and the new open-access journal Advanced Intelligent Systems; all journals she co-launched. Prior to that Esther served as Senior Commissioning Editor for Wiley’s physical sciences book, journal and society publishing program in the Asia-Pacific region and also had an eight year stint with the Advanced Materials editorial team in Weinheim, Germany. She is now based in Sydney, Australia.