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This website accompanies a course on high-impact scientific writing - helping you write a research paper or thesis
Course essentials for Leiden 2025
Course dates: Wednesdays and Thursdays June 4, 5, 11, 12
Course time: whole day from from 9:00 to 17:00
Course location: Leiden University, Gorlaeus Laboratory
June 4, 11 and 12: BW0.29; June 5: BW0.17
Instructor contact: umuller@csufresno.edu
Technology requirements: internet-capable device, power supply, access to a web browser, word processing software
Course overview
Publishing a paper or writing a thesis are important stepping stones for a scientist. Writing high-impact science requires polish and politics. Your success will depend not just on your ability to write clearly and succinctly, but also your ability to identify and communicate with confidence the core messages of your research.
In this workshop, we will learn effective scientific writing and then take what we learned to prepare a research manuscript.
You will read and edit both published and unpublished scientific manuscripts, and you will prepare your own scientific manuscript.
Ulrike Muller
Ulrike Muller
About me
I am a biology professor. I have taught scientific writing courses since 2012 at six different universities in three countries. I have written more than 50 scientific publications and successful grant proposals, and I have peer reviewed many hundreds of manuscripts and proposals. I am the editor in chief of a highly-ranked scientific journal (Integrative and Comparative Biology) and have served as an editor at six scientific journals.
I am a Marine Biologist who studies how organisms swim and feed underwater. Right now my research team and I are studying how carnivorous plants catch prey in their underwater traps.
In my spare time, I read fantasy novels and grow my on food. I also co-host a monthly radio show (KFCF "Science a Candle in the Dark").
Contact
You can reach Ulrike most reliably by email (umuller@csufresno.edu)
Otto Berg
Otto Berg
About me
Dr. Otto Berg is a physical chemist who has collaborated and published across many disciplines. He is a scientific writing coach for top scientists and a faculty at California State University Fresno.
Socially distant Horse Lords concert (math music for math people):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyT3mMFUtDQ&feature=youtu.be
Contact
You can reach Otto most reliably by email (oberg@csufresno.edu)
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