Freelance Editors - Physical Sciences, Medicine, Life Sciences and Humanities

Freelance Editors - Physical Sciences, Medicine, Life Sciences and Humanities

Cactus Communications engages a global team of highly skilled editors who are experts in various academic fields. CACTUS is honoured to be ranked 12th (after a screening of more than 47,000 companies) on the 2017 list of Top 100 Companies for Remote/Freelance Jobs (Forbes article). We’re currently looking for specialist freelance copyeditors and substantive editors.

What you will do

• Edit manuscripts such that the final text is in standard scientific English and is free of unclear or unidiomatic sentences
• Adhere to job-specific instructions and format manuscripts according to the target journal when required
• Ensure that all subject-specific conventions are followed

What you need

• A Post Doc/PhD/Master's/Bachelor's degree or expertise in one or more specialized subject areas in the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, healthcare, medicine and surgery (detailed subject area-list below)
• A Master’s degree in Psychology, Business and Finance, Economics and Statistics.
  A PhD degree in Education, Literature and Linguistics.
• Excellent English editing skills and attention to detail (prior editing experience would be great)

Why this is a great opportunity

• Flexibility to determine your schedule and work hours 
• Our most prolific freelancers who deliver consistently good quality earn over USD 3000 per month
• Additional fees of up to 20%
• No need to relocate. As this is a freelance opportunity, we invite candidates from any location to apply.

Detailed subject-area list

• Physical sciences: Engineering (all disciplines), Robotics, Automobile Engineering, Controls and Systems, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Wireless Communication, Environmental Science, Energy, Indoor Air Quality, Nuclear Physics, Analytical Chemistry, Physical/ Computational Chemistry, General Chemistry, Applied Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Nanochemistry, Materials Science, Metallurgy, Alloys, Nanomaterials, Ceramics/Glass, Materials Engineering, Engineering Geology, Ceramics, Glass, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Optics, Mineralogy, Remote Sensing, Climate Science, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Paleontology, Geodesy, Earth Sciences
• Life sciences: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology, Microbiology, Immunology, Biomaterials, Biophysics, Biostatistics, Systems Biology, Physiology, Nanobiotechnology, Genetics, Aging, Embryology, Biofuels, Food Science, Medical Laboratory Technology, Molecular Oncology, Mycology, Stem Cell Engineering, Virology, Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Toxicology, Drug Design & Development, Plant & Animal Genetics, Plant and Animal Biotechnology, Ecology, Taxonomy, Botany, Zoology, Neurosurgery, Computational Neuroscience
• Healthcare: Cardiology, Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation, Chemotherapy, Plastic Surgery, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Diabetes Research, Radiotherapy Planning
• Medicine: Anatomy, Endocrinology, Dentistry, Radiology, Surgery, Medicine, Ophthalmology
• Social sciences: Economics and Statistics, Psychology, Healthcare, Education, Linguistics, Literature, Business, and Finance