Stella Hurtley obtained her first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, and then went on to a PhD in Cell Biology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. After post-docs in Yale, Philadelphia and Edinburgh, Stella joined Science at the newly established Europe office in Cambridge UK in 1994. Now a Deputy Editor at the journal Stella manages a team of 10 editors in the Cambridge UK office of the journal. She is also responsible for looking after submissions in a variety of subject areas including Cell Biology, Protein folding and quality control, Organelle biogenesis, Neurodegeneration and Cellular Microbiology, and is jointly responsible for the Research Opener (This week in Science) section of the magazine.