Call for Editors

We are looking for new editors to join the board of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB) in February 2026.

JEB is the flag­ship journ­al of the European Soci­ety of Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy (ESEB). We pub­lish our journ­al in part­ner­ship with Oxford Uni­ver­sity press under a not-for-profit mod­el. Pro­ceeds from pub­lish­ing JEB are chan­nelled back into the evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy com­munity and fund ESEB ini­ti­at­ives such as travel awards for Early Career Research­ers, net­work­ing and meet­ing oppor­tun­it­ies and sup­port­ing the ESEB bien­ni­al congress. 

Our edit­or­i­al board con­sists of a small group of Hand­ling Edit­ors (who triage manu­scripts and make final decisions across wider areas with­in evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy), sup­por­ted by a lar­ger board of Asso­ci­ate Edit­ors (who over­see the peer review and recom­mend decisions to the Hand­ling Edit­ors, based on their spe­cial­ist expert­ise). In addi­tion to the main board, JEB also has a Com­mis­sion­ing Edit­or, who soli­cits con­tent such as Spe­cial Issues and Reviews, and a Data Edit­or, who assesses the data archives asso­ci­ated with accep­ted manu­scripts. The edit­or­i­al board is sup­por­ted by a full-time Man­aging Edit­or who, along­side our Edit­or-in-Chief, is always on hand to provide sup­port in hand­ling manu­scripts and to advise on journ­al policy.

Call for applications

Associate Editors

We invite applic­a­tions for the Asso­ci­ate Edit­or role from across all areas of evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy, but would par­tic­u­larly encour­age indi­vidu­als with expert­ise in the fol­low­ing areas to apply: micro­bi­al evol­u­tion, host-patho­gen­/sym­biont inter­ac­tions, quant­it­at­ive genet­ics, pop­u­la­tion genet­ics and gen­om­ics and the use of com­par­at­ive phylo­gen­et­ic approaches. We are also espe­cially inter­ested in applic­a­tions from those work­ing on plants.

Your tasks in the role would con­sist of

  • assess­ing sub­mis­sions assigned to you by a Hand­ling Edit­or for their gen­er­al suit­ab­il­ity to pub­lic­a­tion in JEB, 
  • secur­ing reviews,
  • recom­mend­ing decisions based on review­ers’ com­ments and your own reading,
  • pro­cessing all sub­mis­sions assigned to you in a timely manner,
  • being an ambas­sad­or for JEB in your community,
  • adher­ing at all times and in all aspects of your pro­fes­sion­al life to the ESEB Code of Eth­ics.

Ideal can­did­ates for this role have exper­i­ence as review­ers, with pre­vi­ous exper­i­ence as an edit­or use­ful but not essential. 

The role has a 4‑year term. ESEB will provide free regis­tra­tion for AEs to attend the society’s conferences.

Handling Editor

We invite applic­a­tions for the Hand­ling Edit­or role from across all areas of evol­u­tion­ary biology.

Your tasks in the role would con­sist of

  • assess­ing sub­mis­sions for their gen­er­al suit­ab­il­ity to pub­lic­a­tion in JEB, 
  • assign­ing sub­mis­sions to Asso­ci­ate Editors,
  • issu­ing final decisions based on Asso­ci­ate Edit­or recom­mend­a­tions, review­ers’ com­ments and your own reading,
  • pro­cessing all sub­mis­sions assigned to you in a timely manner,
  • being an ambas­sad­or for JEB in your community,
  • adher­ing at all times and in all aspects of your pro­fes­sion­al life to the ESEB Code of Eth­ics.

Ideal can­did­ates for this role have pre­vi­ous exper­i­ence as an edit­or. We wel­come applic­a­tions from across the field of evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy but are also par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in applic­a­tions from theoreticians.

The role has a 4‑year term. The role attracts a yearly hon­or­ari­um of £4000 and free regis­tra­tion to attend the society’s conferences.

Application procedure

To apply for an Edit­or pos­i­tion, please send the fol­low­ing to the edit­or­i­al office:

  • CV, max­im­um two pages.
  • One-page cov­er let­ter describ­ing your motiv­a­tion for join­ing the JEB board and sup­port­ing the soci­ety journ­al, list­ing pre­vi­ous exper­i­ence qual­i­fy­ing you for the post. Please indic­ate clearly which post you are apply­ing for.
  • A list of keywords describ­ing the topic(s) of your research, the approaches used and the organism(s) of study.

The dead­line for applic­a­tions is Monday 19th Janu­ary and we will select suit­able can­did­ates by late Janu­ary 2026.

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