Thesis and Dissertation Advisors - Biology
VALRIE ANN GERARD, M.A., Ph.D.
Content Editor/Writer: Science and Medicine
Scope: biology, botany, chemistry, ecology, environmental policy, environmental science, evolutionary biology, geography, geology, marine science, mathematical modeling, medicine, oceanography, physiology, veterinary medicine, zoology, and related scientific fields.
Academic Editing/Writing Experience:
- Science and medical editor and writer since 2001.
- Specializes in organization, interpretation, and clear presentation of complex information.
- Helps clients (including non-native English speakers) improve their writing skills for future projects.
- Past and current clients from Australia, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Patagonia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda, the U.K., the U.S., and Venezuela.
- More than fifty publications and one million dollars worth of successful grant proposals.
- Over thirty years of teaching experience, including scientific writing courses.
- Served as advisor and/or mentor to many graduate and undergraduate students.
- Past experience as associate editor and/or reviewer for over two dozen scientific journals, including Science, and government funding agencies.
Provides fast turnaround.
Helps you submit your dissertation, thesis, proposal, or project on time.
Graduate students: Many students who fail to finish their degrees quit in the writing phase. Don’t become a “dissertation dropout”!
- Get help with the thesis/dissertation proposal stage - Val provides help with your proposal, including literature review and research plan.
- Get help with methods, data interpretation and presentation – Val specializes in helping you write clear, concise, and accurate Methods and Results sections, and in designing figures and tables.
- Get help writing the final thesis/dissertation – Val shows you how to organize your material, including your Literature Review and Discussion, and polishes your writing.
- Get help with revisions – Val helps you make changes in response to comments by your advisor and committee members.
- Get help with the defense – Val can help you prepare your presentation, and will provide you with practice sessions if desired.
- Get help with publications – Val will guide you through the manuscript preparation process and help you get your work published.
Undergraduate students: Most students do not take any writing courses beyond English 101. Term papers and theses can be major hurdles in completing your degree. Don’t trip over those hurdles!
- Get help with science projects – Val can help you design your project and interpret the data.
- Get help with term papers – Val provides assistance with term papers, helping you improve the organization and writing.
- Get help with your thesis – Val can help you organize and write an undergraduate thesis.
HANNA CRAIG
Hanna Craig, Ph.D., M.S., B.S., is a medical writer and editor with 20 years of writing and research experience in numerous scientific fields. She holds post-graduate degrees in systematics and molecular toxicology, as well as post-doctoral fellowships in neuroendocrinology and bioinformatics. She writes, edits and proofreads technical reports, scientific manuscripts, grant proposals, materials for CME accreditation and clinical study reports (CSR) for pharmaceutical industry. She has authored numerous highly technical publications and grant proposals, in many biological fields and with an emphasis on biotechnology. On these grants she has served both as co- and principle investigator. Additional experience includes computational biology, scientific advisory, database curation and annotation, web content writing, patent application writing and statistical design and analysis.
Her general areas of interest include: bioinformatics, molecular biology studies, virology, vaccinology, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurology, oncology, toxicology and pharmacology.
Hanna has served on graduate student committees, and has advised and assisted graduate students with dissertations and academic publications. She has also served on scientific advisory boards to assist in bioinformatics design and tool development, and has her own bioinformatics software development business. She has published book chapters, has authored and co-authored many peer-reviewed scientific articles, as well as other works on medical and scientific websites.
