Alison Bert is Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Connect, which features daily stories for the global science, health and technology communities.

She joined Elsevier in 2007 from the world of journalism; she was a business reporter and blogger for The Journal News, a Gannett daily newspaper in New York.

In the previous century, Alison was a classical guitarist on the music faculty of Syracuse University. She has a doctorate from the University of Arizona, was a Fulbright Scholar in Spain and performed in the 1986 international master class of Andrés Segovia.